Photoinduced electron transfer from conducting polymers onto Buckminsterfullerene

Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci; Laura B. Smilowitz; Chi Zhang; Vojislav I. Srdanov; Alan J. Heeger; Fred Wudl

doi:10.1117/12.148451

23 July 1993 Photoinduced electron transfer from conducting polymers onto Buckminsterfullerene

Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Laura B. Smilowitz, Chi Zhang, Vojislav I. Srdanov, Alan J. Heeger, Fred Wudl

Proceedings Volume 1852, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Advanced Materials; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.148451
Event: OE/LASE'93: Optics, Electro-Optics, and Laser Applications in Scienceand Engineering, 1993, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

Experimental evidence of electron transfer from photo-excited conjugated polymers onto C₆₀ is reported. Photoinduced optical absorption, photoinduced electron spin resonance, and quenching of the photoluminescence in conducting polymers interacting with C₆₀ imply that charge transfer from the excited state of the conducting polymer to C₆₀ occurs on a picosecond time scale. The charge-separated state in composite films is metastable at low temperatures. Rectifying bilayer heterojunctions (diodes) have been fabricated using semiconducting polymers and C₆₀; rectification ratios in the current vs. voltage characteristics exceed 10⁴. When illuminated, the devices act as photodiodes and exhibit photovoltaic response as a result of photoinduced charge separation across the heterojunction interface from the semiconducting polymer (donor) onto the C₆₀ (acceptor). The photodiode and photovoltaic responses are characterized. The results are discussed in terms of opportunities for solar energy conversion, for photodiode detector devices, and for a variety of other applications which use photoinduced intermolecular charge separation.

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Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, Laura B. Smilowitz, Chi Zhang, Vojislav I. Srdanov, Alan J. Heeger, and Fred Wudl "Photoinduced electron transfer from conducting polymers onto Buckminsterfullerene", Proc. SPIE 1852, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Advanced Materials, (23 July 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.148451

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