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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 22, Issue 14, Pages 3035-3042Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201200058
Keywords
organic photovoltaic devices; NIR absorption; charge-transfer complexes; organic heterojunctions
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- Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China [T23-713/11]
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Exploitation of energy from the near-infrared (NIR) region is one strategic approach for enhancing the performance of organic photovoltaic devices (OPVs). While effort has been mostly put toward developing materials with narrow energy gaps, here, a simple approach for harvesting NIR photons with wide-energy-gap materials by making use of their interactive charge-transfer complex (CTC) is shown. It is shown using photoemission studies that the interface between molybdenum (VI) oxide and 5,6,11,12-tetraphenylnaphthacene (MoO3/rubrene) possesses an abrupt discontinuity in the vacuum level (VL), resulting in significantly overlapped electron wavefunctions and CTC formation. The CTC induces an intermediate state within the original energy gap of rubrene with energy of similar to 1.3 eV, suggesting the feasibility of a charge transfer (CT) exciton generated upon NIR excitation. This is confirmed by generation of electric power OPVs with an active layer of MoO3:rubrene composite under excitation with a NIR light source.
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