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ArticleScience advances2021

Frenkel biexcitons in hybrid HJ photophysical aggregates.

Elizabeth Gutiérrez-Meza, Ravyn Malatesta, Hongmo Li, Ilaria Bargigia, Ajay Ram Srimath Kandada, David A Valverde-Chávez, Seong-Min Kim, Hao Li, Natalie Stingelin, Sergei Tretiak and 2 more

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Elizabeth Gutiérrez-MezaSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5741-8737
Ravyn MalatestaSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0274-6044
Hongmo LiSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3714-1758
Ilaria BargigiaDepartment of Physics and Center for Functional Materials, Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4428-7958
Ajay Ram Srimath KandadaDepartment of Physics and Center for Functional Materials, Wake Forest University, 1834 Wake Forest Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7420-1150
David A Valverde-ChávezSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5491-4244
Seong-Min KimSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1320-6898
Hao LiDepartment of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4234-7753
Natalie StingelinSchool of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, North Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1414-4545
Sergei TretiakTheoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5547-3647
Eric R BittnerDepartment of Chemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0775-9664
Carlos Silva-AcuñaSchool of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 901 Atlantic Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3969-5271

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Abstract

Frenkel excitons are unequivocally responsible for the optical properties of organic semiconductors and are predicted to form bound exciton pairs (biexcitons). These are key intermediates, ubiquitous in many photophysical processes such as the exciton bimolecular annihilation dynamics in such systems. Because of their spectral ambiguity, there has been, to date, only scant direct evidence of bound biexcitons. By using nonlinear coherent spectroscopy, we identify here bound biexcitons in a model polymeric semiconductor. We find, unexpectedly, that excitons with interchain vibronic dispersion reveal intrachain biexciton correlations and vice versa. Moreover, using a Frenkel exciton model, we relate the biexciton binding energy to molecular parameters quantified by quantum chemistry, including the magnitude and sign of the exciton-exciton interaction the intersite hopping energies. Therefore, our work promises general insights into the many-body electronic structure in polymeric semiconductors and beyond, e.g., other excitonic systems such as organic semiconductor crystals, molecular aggregates, photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes, or DNA.

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