Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2014
Volume 59, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 3–7, 2014; Denver, Colorado
Session S1: Focus Session: Charge & Energy Transfer III
8:00 AM–11:00 AM,
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Room: 103/105
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DCP
Chair: Martin Wolf, Fritz-Haber-Institute
Abstract ID: BAPS.2014.MAR.S1.4
Abstract: S1.00004 : Direct observation of ultrafast long-range charge separation at polymer:fullerene heterojunctions
8:36 AM–9:12 AM
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Author:
Carlos Silva
(Universit\'e de Montr\'eal)
In polymeric semiconductors, charge carriers are polarons, which means that the excess charge deforms the molecular structure of the polymer chain that hosts it. This effect results in distinctive signatures in the vibrational modes of the polymer. We probe polaron photogeneration dynamics at polymer:fullerene heterojunctions by monitoring its time-resolved resonance-Raman spectrum following ultrafast photoexcitation. We conclude that polarons emerge within 200\,fs, which is nearly two orders of magnitude faster than exciton localisation in the neat polymer film. Surprisingly, further vibrational evolution on $\la 50$-ps timescales is modest, indicating that the polymer conformation hosting nascent polarons is not significantly different from that in equilibrium. This suggests that charges are free from their mutual Coulomb potential, under which vibrational dynamics would report charge-pair relaxation. Our work addresses current debates on the photocarrier generation mechanism at organic semiconductor heterojunctions, and is, to our knowledge, the first direct probe of molecular conformation dynamics during this fundamentally important process in these materials.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2014.MAR.S1.4
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