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Observing Charge Separation Distance in Organic Donor-Acceptors with Photoinduced Absorption Detected Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

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OSTI ID:1994502
The debatable role of charge transfer states in photoinduced charge separation to useful free carriers has been a long-standing controversy in the field of organic solar cells. In this work, varying charge-pair distances are measured in sensitized donor-acceptor thin films using a photoinduced absorption-detected magnetic resonance (PADMR) technique where nearest-neighbor charge transfer states are identified by their strong magnetic dipole-coupling relative to more distant charges. Correlation with the direct measurement of free carriers using time-resolved microwave conductivity has corroborated a distributed-range electron transfer model in which charges generated at longer distances become free carriers, while shorter transfer distances give only bound charge transfer states that cannot separate to generate photocurrent.
Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences & Biosciences Division
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308;
OSTI ID:
1994502
Report Number(s):
NREL/PO-5900-86124; MainId:86897; UUID:29e49871-3a00-41a4-aa2a-f410b7280d2c; MainAdminID:70152
Conference Information:
Presented at Fpi-15, 17-21 June 2023, Raleigh, North Carolina
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English