Driving Force Dependence of Electron Transfer Kinetics and Yield in Low-Band-Gap Polymer Donor-Acceptor Organic Photovoltaic Blends

作者：Wright Brendan F; Sunahara Kenji; Furube Akihiro; Nattestad Andrew; Clarke Tracey M; Bazan Guillermo C; Azoulay Jason D; Mozer Attila J^*

来源：Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2015, 119(23): 12829-12837.

DOI：10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b01617

The rate of photoinduced electron transfer (PET) (kappa(PET)), quantum yield of PET (QY(PET)), and charge extraction yield (EQE) are determined for a series of donor-acceptor (DA) organic photovoltaic systems, comprising low-band-gap polymer donors and the phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) acceptor. The energetic alignment of these polymer donors relative to PCBM provides driving forces for PET (Delta G(PET)) in the range of 0.18-0.57 eV. Femtosecond transient absorption (TA) spectroscopy was used to assess the PET kinetics and QY(PET), while time-resolved charge extraction (TRCE) measurements were employed to assess EQE. Near unity QY(PET) was observed in DA blend films with a Delta G(PET) of 0.57 and 0.30 eV, whereas no resolvable PET was observed with a Delta G(PET) of 0.18 eV. For the DA blends that exhibit PET, both kappa PET and QY(PET) appear independent of Delta GPET, with an average Delta PET of 420 fs for the 70% PCBM blends. An increase in nanosecond charge separation yield (TA) and EQE (TRCE) between DA systems was observed, which appears not to be due to the PET process but rather the subsequent recombination processes. DA systems should be designed to minimize ?GPET, minimizing associated losses in device open-circuit potential; however, picosecond bimolecular recombination severely limits achievable charge extraction yields in these DA systems.

• 出版日期2015-6-11