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SCIENCE
Volume 335, Issue 6074, Pages 1340-1344Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1217745
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- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Marie Curie Cofund Action
- Corpus Christi College
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- RTN SUPERIOR
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G060738/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G060738/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The electron-hole pair created via photon absorption in organic photoconversion systems must overcome the Coulomb attraction to achieve long-range charge separation. We show that this process is facilitated through the formation of excited, delocalized band states. In our experiments on organic photovoltaic cells, these states were accessed for a short time (<1 picosecond) via infrared (IR) optical excitation of electron-hole pairs bound at the heterojunction. Atomistic modeling showed that the IR photons promote bound charge pairs to delocalized band states, similar to those formed just after singlet exciton dissociation, which indicates that such states act as the gateway for charge separation. Our results suggest that charge separation in efficient organic photoconversion systems occurs through hot-state charge delocalization rather than energy-gradient-driven intermolecular hopping.
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