Abstract
When photoexcited, an organic photovoltaic (OPV) donor/acceptor (D/A) blend is expected to undergo charge separation (CS) through three channels: electron transfer, hole transfer, and energy transfer-induced electron/hole transfer. However, previous spectroscopic studies on various blends based on non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have not been able to directly characterize the dynamics of these processes, due to spectral overlap of the involved intermediate species. Herein, we study the excited-state dynamics of D/A blends composed of PBDB-T (D) and a L-series NFA (L4 or L5) and show that the species responsible for these processes in the PBDB-T/L4 blend can be spectroscopically identified, allowing us to disentangle their dynamics. Moreover, we confirm the occurrence of photoinduced CS in neat L4 and L5 films, providing direct evidence that CS can occur under nearly zero driving force in OPV systems. Further density functional theory calculations suggest that specific molecular packing patterns may play an important role in facilitating CS.
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