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American Institute of Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 4(159), 2023

DOI: 10.1063/5.0150140

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Influence of vibronic interaction of charge transfer excitons in PTB7/BTA-based nonfullerene organic solar cells

Journal article published in 2023 by Sumire Ikeyama, Azusa Muraoka ORCID
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Abstract

We studied photoinduced charge transfer (CT) states and their dissociation processes at the donor/acceptor (D/A) interface of PTB7/BTAx (x = 1 and 3) nonfullerene organic thin-film solar cells using density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT calculations. We focused on the CT distances and electron coupling in the CT state generated by photoexcitation and the Huang–Rhys (HR) factors that describe the nonadiabatic processes associated with vibronic interactions. The PTB7/BTA3 system with a large short-circuit current density (JSC) exhibited a large charge CT distance and electronic coupling. Contrastingly, the PTB7/BTA1 system with a low JSC has a large HR factor because of the low-wavenumber vibrational modes in the CT state of the D/A complex and is prone to nonadiabatic relaxation to the ground state. Systematic theoretical analysis of the excitonic states in the D/A complex has provided insight into the control of CT exciton dynamics, namely JSC and electron–hole recombination.