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Polaron pair mediated triplet generation in polymer/fullerene blends
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Dimitrov SD
; Wheeler S
; Niedzialek D
; Schroeder BC
; Utzat H
; Frost JM
; Yao J
; Gillett A
; Tuladhar PS
; McCulloch I
; Nelson J
; Durrant JR
Nat Commun
2015[Mar]; 6
(?): 6501
PMID25735188
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Electron spin is a key consideration for the function of organic semiconductors
in light-emitting diodes and solar cells, as well as spintronic applications
relying on organic magnetoresistance. A mechanism for triplet excited state
generation in such systems is by recombination of electron-hole pairs. However,
the exact charge recombination mechanism, whether geminate or nongeminate and
whether it involves spin-state mixing is not well understood. In this work, the
dynamics of free charge separation competing with recombination to polymer
triplet states is studied in two closely related polymer-fullerene blends with
differing polymer fluorination and photovoltaic performance. Using time-resolved
laser spectroscopic techniques and quantum chemical calculations, we show that
lower charge separation in the fluorinated system is associated with the
formation of bound electron-hole pairs, which undergo spin-state mixing on the
nanosecond timescale and subsequent geminate recombination to triplet excitons.
We find that these bound electron-hole pairs can be dissociated by electric
fields.