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NATURE MATERIALS
卷 12, 期 1, 页码 66-73出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NMAT3500
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- Understanding Charge Separation and Transfer at Interfaces in Energy Materials (EFRC:CST), an Energy Frontier Research Center
- US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001091]
- US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [DE-AC04-94AL85000]
Photocurrent generation in organic photovoltaics (OPVs) relies on the dissociation of excitons into free electrons and holes at donor/acceptor heterointerfaces. The low dielectric constant of organic semiconductors leads to strong Coulomb interactions between electron-hole pairs that should in principle oppose the generation of free charges. The exact mechanism by which electrons and holes overcome this Coulomb trapping is still unsolved, but increasing evidence points to the critical role of hot charge-transfer (CT) excitons in assisting this process. Here we provide a real-time view of hot CT exciton formation and relaxation using femtosecond nonlinear optical spectroscopies and non-adiabatic mixed quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics simulations in the phthalocyanine-fullerene model OPV system. For initial excitation on phthalocyanine, hot CT excitons are formed in 10(-13) s, followed by relaxation to lower energies and shorter electron-hole distances on a 10(-12) s timescale. This hot CT exciton cooling process and collapse of charge separation sets the fundamental time limit for competitive charge separation channels that lead to efficient photocurrent generation.
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