Band-like Charge Photogeneration at a Crystalline Organic Donor/Acceptor Interface
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Chemistry
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Organic photovoltaic cells possess desirable practical characteristics, such as the potential for low-cost fabrication on flexible substrates, but they lag behind their inorganic counterparts in performance due in part to fundamental energy loss mechanisms, such as overcoming the charge transfer (CT) state binding energy when photogenerated charge is transferred across the donor/acceptor interface. However, recent work has suggested that crystalline interfaces can reduce this binding energy due to enhanced CT state delocalization. Solar cells based on rubrene and C60 are investigated as an archetypal system because it allows the degree of crystallinity to be moldulated from a highly disordered to highly ordered system. Using a postdeposition annealing method to transform as-deposited amorphous rubrene thin films into ones that are highly crystalline, it is shown that the CT state of a highly crystalline rubrene/C60 heterojunction undergoes extreme delocalization parallel to the interface leading to a band-like state that exhibits a linear Stark effect. This state parallels the direct charge formation of inorganic solar cells and reduces energetic losses by 220 meV compared with 12 other archetypal heterojunctions reported in the literature.
- Research Organization:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Excitonics (CE); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States); Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; Department of Defense (DoD); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0001088; SC0012458; SC0012365; DMR‐1332208; DMR‐1420541; AC02‐06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1470430
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1412584; OSTI ID: 1595406
- Journal Information:
- Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 8, Issue 9; Related Information: CE partners with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (lead); Brookhaven National Laboratory; Harvard University; ISSN 1614-6832
- Publisher:
- WileyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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