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Photoexcited organic molecules $en~route$ to highly efficient autoionization

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 نشر من قبل Julia St\\\"ahler
 تاريخ النشر 2019
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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The conversion of optical and electrical energy in novel materials is key to modern optoelectronic and light-harvesting applications. Here, we investigate the equilibration dynamics of photoexcited 2,7-bis(biphenyl-4-yl)-2,7-ditertbutyl-9,9-spirobiuorene (SP6) molecules adsorbed on ZnO(10-10) using femtosecond time-resolved two-photon photoelectron (2PPE) and optical spectroscopy. We find that, after initial ultrafast relaxation on fs and ps timescales, an optically dark state is populated, likely the SP6 triplet (T) state, that undergoes Dexter-type energy transfer ($r_{mathrm{Dex}} = 1.3~mathrm{nm}$) and exhibits a long decay time of 0.1 s. Because of this long lifetime a photostationary state with average T-T distances below 2 nm is established at excitation densities in the $10^{20}~mathrm{cm}^{-2}~mathrm{s}^{-1}$ range. This large density enables decay by T-T annihilation (TTA) mediating autoionization despite an extremely low TTA rate of $k_{mathrm{TTA}} = 4.5~10^{-26}~mathrm{m}^3~mathrm{s}^{-1}$. The large external quantum efficiency of the autoionization process (up to 15 %) and photocurrent densities in the mathrm{mA}~mathrm{cm}^{-2}$ range offer great potential for light-harvesting applications.



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