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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2024

Activationless Charge Transfer Drives Photocurrent Generation in Organic Photovoltaic Blends Independent of Energetic Offset.

Yifan Dong, Rui Zheng, Deping Qian, Tack Ho Lee, Helen L Bristow, Pabitra Shakya Tuladhar, Hyojung Cha, James R Durrant

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Yifan DongDepartment of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-2912-3322
Rui ZhengDepartment of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom.
Deping QianStraits Institute of Flexible Electronics (SIFE, Future Technologies), Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350117, China.
Tack Ho LeeDepartment of Chemistry Education, Graduate Department of Chemical Materials, Institute for Plastic Information and Energy Materials, Sustainable Utilization of Photovoltaic Energy Research Center, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-2201-0165
Helen L BristowDepartment of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom.
Pabitra Shakya TuladharDepartment of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom.
Hyojung ChaDepartment of Hydrogen and Renewable Energy, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 41566, Republic of Korea.
James R DurrantDepartment of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8353-7345

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Abstract

Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have recently shown substantial progress in enhancing device efficiency, driven in particular by advances in the design of nonfullerene acceptors and the reduction of the energy offset driving exciton separation at the donor/acceptor interface. Herein, we employ temperature-dependent transient absorption spectroscopy to investigate the activation energy for charge generation and recombination in a range of bulk heterojunction blends with nonfullerene acceptors. Remarkably, we find that in all cases charge generation is almost activationless, in the range of 11-21 meV, independent of energetic offset. Geminate recombination is also observed to be almost activationless, with only the kinetics of bimolecular charge recombination being strongly temperature-dependent, with an activation energy >400 meV. Our observation of essentially activationless charge generation, independent of energy offset, strongly indicates that charge generation in such blends does not follow Marcus theory but can rather be considered an adiabatic process associated with the motion of thermally unrelaxed carriers.

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