TY - JOUR
T1 - Charge-transfer electronic states in organic solar cells
AU - Coropceanu, Veaceslav
AU - Chen, Xian Kai
AU - Wang, Tonghui
AU - Zheng, Zilong
AU - Brédas, Jean Luc
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank their collaborators for shaping their understanding of organic photovoltaic materials and devices, in particular H. Ade, A. Bakulin, G. Bazan, D. Beljonne, J. Cornil, R. Friend, F. Gao, O. Inganas, B. Kippelen, L. Kronik, K. Leo, S. Marder, M. McGehee, Q. Nguyen, J. Reynolds, Z. Shuai, K. Vandewal, H. Yan and Y. Yi, as well as their research groups. The authors are also grateful to P. Armistead for supporting their research programme in this field and acknowledge funding of this work by the U.S. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, under the MURI ‘Center for Advanced Organic Photovoltaics’ (award nos. N00014-14-1-0580 and N00014-16-1-2520) and under award no. N00014-17-1-2208.
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PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - In organic solar cells, the charge-transfer (CT) electronic states that form at the interface between the electron-donor (D) and electron-acceptor (A) materials have a crucial role in exciton-dissociation, charge-separation and charge-recombination processes. Since the introduction of active layers consisting of D–A bulk heterojunctions, CT states have been the focus of extensive experimental and theoretical studies. In this Review, we assess the current understanding of CT states and describe how factors such as the geometry of the D–A interface, electronic polarization and the extent of electron delocalization affect their nature and influence the radiative and non-radiative decay processes. We focus on the description and application of fundamental concepts, which provides the framework to discuss the path to organic solar cells with efficiencies comparable to those in inorganic photovoltaic technologies.
AB - In organic solar cells, the charge-transfer (CT) electronic states that form at the interface between the electron-donor (D) and electron-acceptor (A) materials have a crucial role in exciton-dissociation, charge-separation and charge-recombination processes. Since the introduction of active layers consisting of D–A bulk heterojunctions, CT states have been the focus of extensive experimental and theoretical studies. In this Review, we assess the current understanding of CT states and describe how factors such as the geometry of the D–A interface, electronic polarization and the extent of electron delocalization affect their nature and influence the radiative and non-radiative decay processes. We focus on the description and application of fundamental concepts, which provides the framework to discuss the path to organic solar cells with efficiencies comparable to those in inorganic photovoltaic technologies.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41578-019-0137-9
DO - 10.1038/s41578-019-0137-9
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85072211248
VL - 4
SP - 689
EP - 707
JO - Nature Reviews Materials
JF - Nature Reviews Materials
SN - 2058-8437
IS - 11
ER -