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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 7, Issue 14, Pages 2640-2646Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00806
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- Australian Research Council (ARC) [DE120101721]
- University of Queensland
- Australian Research Council [DE120101721] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Transient absorption spectroscopy on organic semiconductor blends for solar cells typically shows efficient charge generation within similar to 100 fs, accounting for the majority of the charge carriers. In this Letter, we show using transient absorption spectroscopy on blends containing a broad range of acceptor content (0.01-50% by weight) that the rise of the polaron signal is dependent on the acceptor concentration. For low acceptor content (<10% by weight), the polaron signal rises gradually over similar to 1 ps with most polarons generated after 200 fs, while for higher acceptor concentrations (>10%) most polarons are generated within 200 fs. The rise time in blends with low acceptor content was also found to be sensitive to the pump fluence, decreasing with increasing excitation density. These results indicate that the sub-100 fs rise of the polaron signal is a natural consequence of both the high acceptor concentrations in many donor-acceptor blends and the high excitation densities needed for transient absorption spectroscopy, which results in a short average distance between the exciton and the donor-acceptor interface.
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