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SCIENCE
Volume 340, Issue 6130, Pages 334-337Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1232994
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- Center for Excitonics, an Energy Frontier Research Center
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001088]
- NSF [1122374]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0963009] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Singlet exciton fission transforms a molecular singlet excited state into two triplet states, each with half the energy of the original singlet. In solar cells, it could potentially double the photocurrent from high-energy photons. We demonstrate organic solar cells that exploit singlet exciton fission in pentacene to generate more than one electron per incident photon in a portion of the visible spectrum. Using a fullerene acceptor, a poly(3-hexylthiophene) exciton confinement layer, and a conventional optical trapping scheme, we show a peak external quantum efficiency of (109 +/- 1)% at wavelength lambda = 670 nanometers for a 15-nanometer-thick pentacene film. The corresponding internal quantum efficiency is (160 +/- 10)%. Analysis of the magnetic field effect on photocurrent suggests that the triplet yield approaches 200% for pentacene films thicker than 5 nanometers.
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