Directional charge separation in isolated organic semiconductor crystalline nanowires

J. A. Labastide, H. B. Thompson, S. R. Marques, N. S. Colella, A. L. Briseno and M. D. Barnes ()
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J. A. Labastide: University of Massachusetts
H. B. Thompson: University of Massachusetts
S. R. Marques: University of Massachusetts
N. S. Colella: University of Massachusetts
A. L. Briseno: University of Massachusetts
M. D. Barnes: University of Massachusetts

Nature Communications, 2016, vol. 7, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract One of the fundamental design paradigms in organic photovoltaic device engineering is based on the idea that charge separation is an extrinsically driven process requiring an interface for exciton fission. This idea has driven an enormous materials science engineering effort focused on construction of domain sizes commensurate with a nominal exciton diffusion length of order 10 nm. Here, we show that polarized optical excitation of isolated pristine crystalline nanowires of a small molecule n-type organic semiconductor, 7,8,15,16-tetraazaterrylene, generates a significant population of charge-separated polaron pairs along the π-stacking direction. Charge separation was signalled by pronounced power-law photoluminescence decay polarized along the same axis. In the transverse direction, we observed exponential decay associated with excitons localized on individual monomers. We propose that this effect derives from an intrinsic directional charge-transfer interaction that can ultimately be programmed by molecular packing geometry.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10629

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