D'AVINO, Gabriele; MUCCIOLI, Luca; OLIVIER, Yoann; BELJONNE, David

doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02680

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D'AVINO, Gabriele
Univ Mons, Lab Chem Novel Mat, Belgium

MUCCIOLI, Luca
Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques [LCPO]
Team 4 LCPO : Polymer Materials for Electronic, Energy, Information and Communication Technologies

OLIVIER, Yoann
Univ Mons, Lab Chem Novel Mat, Belgium

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Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2016, vol. 7, n° 3, p. 536-540

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We address charge separation and recombination in polymer/fullerene solar cells with a multiscale modeling built from accurate atomistic inputs and accounting for disorder, interface electrostatics and genuine quantum effects on equal footings. Our results show that bound localized charge transfer states at the interface coexist with a large majority of thermally accessible delocalized space-separated states that can be also reached by direct photoexcitation, thanks to their strong hybridization with singlet polymer excitons. These findings reconcile the recent experimental reports of ultrafast exciton separation ("hot" process) with the evidence that high quantum yields do not require excess electronic or vibrational energy ("cold" process), and show that delocalization, by shifting the density of charge transfer states toward larger effective electron-hole radii, may reduce energy losses through charge recombination.< Leer menos

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HOT EXCITON DISSOCIATION

ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS

SOLAR-CELLS

ELECTRONIC-STRUCTURE

TRANSFER STATES

GENERATION

INTERFACES

ENERGETICS

ENERGY

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Charge Separation and Recombination at Polymer-Fullerene Heterojunctions: Delocalization and Hybridization Effects

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