Nature Communications (Feb 2020)
Sub-picosecond charge-transfer at near-zero driving force in polymer:non-fullerene acceptor blends and bilayers
- Yufei Zhong,
- Martina Causa’,
- Gareth John Moore,
- Philipp Krauspe,
- Bo Xiao,
- Florian Günther,
- Jonas Kublitski,
- Rishi Shivhare,
- Johannes Benduhn,
- Eyal BarOr,
- Subhrangsu Mukherjee,
- Kaila M. Yallum,
- Julien Réhault,
- Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld,
- Dieter Neher,
- Lee J. Richter,
- Dean M. DeLongchamp,
- Frank Ortmann,
- Koen Vandewal,
- Erjun Zhou,
- Natalie Banerji
Affiliations
- Yufei Zhong
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern
- Martina Causa’
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern
- Gareth John Moore
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern
- Philipp Krauspe
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern
- Bo Xiao
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology
- Florian Günther
- Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC), Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
- Jonas Kublitski
- Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) and Institute for Applied Physics Technische Universität Dresden
- Rishi Shivhare
- Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) and Institute for Applied Physics Technische Universität Dresden
- Johannes Benduhn
- Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) and Institute for Applied Physics Technische Universität Dresden
- Eyal BarOr
- Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam
- Subhrangsu Mukherjee
- Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Kaila M. Yallum
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern
- Julien Réhault
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern
- Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld
- Dresden Integrated Center for Applied Physics and Photonic Materials (IAPP) and Institute for Applied Physics Technische Universität Dresden
- Dieter Neher
- Institute of Physics and Astronomy, University of Potsdam
- Lee J. Richter
- Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Dean M. DeLongchamp
- Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Frank Ortmann
- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden
- Koen Vandewal
- Institute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC), Hasselt University
- Erjun Zhou
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology
- Natalie Banerji
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14549-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
It has been commonly believed that the driving force at the donor-acceptor heterojunction is vital to efficient charge separation in organic solar cells. Here Zhong et al. show that the driving force can be as small as 0.05 eV without compromising the charge transfer rate and efficiency.
