Open AccessCorrelating Charge-Transfer State Lifetimes with Material Energetics in Polymer:Non-Fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells
Author(s) -
Yifan Dong,
Hyojung Cha,
Helen Bristow,
Jinho Lee,
Aditi Kumar,
Pabitra Shakya Tuladhar,
Iain McCulloch,
Artem A. Bakulin,
James R. Durrant
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the american chemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.115
H-Index - 612
eISSN - 1520-5126
pISSN - 0002-7863
DOI - 10.1021/jacs.1c00584
Subject(s) - chemistry , exciton , organic solar cell , fullerene , acceptor , singlet state , band gap , polymer , ultrafast laser spectroscopy , spectroscopy , chemical physics , atomic physics , molecular physics , photochemistry , optoelectronics , condensed matter physics , materials science , physics , organic chemistry , excited state , quantum mechanics
Minimizing the energy offset between the lowest exciton and charge-transfer (CT) states is a widely employed strategy to suppress the energy loss ( E g /q - V OC ) in polymer:non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) organic solar cells (OSCs). In this work, transient absorption spectroscopy is employed to determine CT state lifetimes in a series of low energy loss polymer:NFA blends. The CT state lifetime is observed to show an inverse energy gap law dependence and decreases as the energy loss is reduced. This behavior is assigned to increased mixing/hybridization between these CT states and shorter-lived singlet excitons of the lower gap component as the energy offset Δ E CT-S1 is reduced. This study highlights how achieving longer exciton and CT state lifetimes has the potential for further enhancement of OSC efficiencies.
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