TY - JOUR
T1 - Long-range exciton diffusion in molecular non-fullerene acceptors
AU - Firdaus, Yuliar
AU - Le Corre, Vincent M.
AU - Karuthedath, Safakath
AU - Liu, Wenlan
AU - Markina, Anastasia
AU - Huang, Wentao
AU - Chattopadhyay, Shirsopratim
AU - Nahid, Masrur Morshed
AU - Nugraha, Mohamad I.
AU - Lin, Yuanbao
AU - Seitkhan, Akmaral
AU - Basu, Aniruddha
AU - Zhang, Weimin
AU - McCulloch, Iain
AU - Ade, Harald
AU - Labram, John G.
AU - Laquai, Frédéric
AU - Andrienko, Denis
AU - Koster, L. Jan Anton
AU - Anthopoulos, Thomas D.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-11-03
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): Award No. OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079.
Acknowledgements: This publication is based upon work supported by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under Award No. OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079. The work by V.M.L.C. is supported by a grant from STW/NWO (VIDI 13476). This is a publication by the FOM Focus Group “Next Generation Organic Photovoltaics”, participating in the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER). D.A. acknowledges funding from the BMBF grants InterPhase and MESOMERIE (FKZ 13N13661, FKZ 13N13656) and the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program “Widening materials models” under Grant Agreement
No. 646259 (MOSTOPHOS). D.A. also acknowledges the KAUST PSE Division for hosting his sabbatical in the framework of the Division’s Visiting Faculty program. A.M. acknowledges postdoctoral support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. H.A.and M.M.N. acknowledge the support from the University of North Carolina General Administration Research Opportunity Initiative (ROI) and U.S. Department of Energy (DE-AC02-05CH11231) for X-ray data acquisition at beamline 7.3.3 at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) in Berkeley National Laboratory, California.
PY - 2020/10/15
Y1 - 2020/10/15
N2 - Abstract
The short exciton diffusion length associated with most classical organic semiconductors used in organic photovoltaics (5-20 nm) imposes severe limits on the maximum size of the donor and acceptor domains within the photoactive layer of the cell. Identifying materials that are able to transport excitons over longer distances can help advancing our understanding and lead to solar cells with higher efficiency. Here, we measure the exciton diffusion length in a wide range of nonfullerene acceptor molecules using two different experimental techniques based on photocurrent and ultrafast spectroscopy measurements. The acceptors exhibit balanced ambipolar charge transport and surprisingly long exciton diffusion lengths in the range of 20 to 47 nm. With the aid of quantum-chemical calculations, we are able to rationalize the exciton dynamics and draw basic chemical design rules, particularly on the importance of the end-group substituent on the crystal packing of nonfullerene acceptors.
AB - Abstract
The short exciton diffusion length associated with most classical organic semiconductors used in organic photovoltaics (5-20 nm) imposes severe limits on the maximum size of the donor and acceptor domains within the photoactive layer of the cell. Identifying materials that are able to transport excitons over longer distances can help advancing our understanding and lead to solar cells with higher efficiency. Here, we measure the exciton diffusion length in a wide range of nonfullerene acceptor molecules using two different experimental techniques based on photocurrent and ultrafast spectroscopy measurements. The acceptors exhibit balanced ambipolar charge transport and surprisingly long exciton diffusion lengths in the range of 20 to 47 nm. With the aid of quantum-chemical calculations, we are able to rationalize the exciton dynamics and draw basic chemical design rules, particularly on the importance of the end-group substituent on the crystal packing of nonfullerene acceptors.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/665769
UR - http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19029-9
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85092584343&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1038/s41467-020-19029-9
DO - 10.1038/s41467-020-19029-9
M3 - Article
C2 - 33060574
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 11
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
IS - 1
ER -