Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Ultrafast hole transfer mediated by polaron pairs in all-polymer photovoltaic blends

  • Rui Wang,
  • Yao Yao,
  • Chunfeng Zhang,
  • Yindong Zhang,
  • Haijun Bin,
  • Lingwei Xue,
  • Zhi-Guo Zhang,
  • Xiaoyu Xie,
  • Haibo Ma,
  • Xiaoyong Wang,
  • Yongfang Li,
  • Min Xiao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08361-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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All-polymer solar cells have shown high efficiencies but the ultrafast charge transfer processes are less known. Here Wang et al. show that polaron pairs play vital role facilitating the hole transfer, which is quite different from the exciton dominated pathway in polymer-fullerene blends.