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PRESENTED BY:
LEONAR JUN R. GABIANA
Experimental estimates of the exciton binding energy have often been based
upon estimates of the minimum LUMO level offset required to separate excitons at
organic donor/ acceptor interfaces.
It has been suggested in the literature that a LUMO level offset of 0.3 eV is
sufficient for efficient charge separation and this value is used in many other
studies as a justification for lowering the polymer LUMO in order to achieve a
smaller band-gap material without sacrificing VOC (by raising the donor HOMO
instead)
Direct experimental measures of the magnitude of Ebexc remain controversial.
The source of this dissension results in part from the disordered nature
of conjugated polymers, which prevents parameters such as the exciton
binding energy from being well defined.
Conclusions
Therefore, the energy of the charge-separated state is of great
importance in achieving efficient charge photogeneration.
Lowering the polymer HOMO to achieve a higher VOC should
therefore be treated with caution as this may raise the energy
of the charge-separated state to the point where it is no longer
thermodynamically accessible and alternative pathways to
lower energy triplet states may be activated instead.
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