Abstract
The existence of a ground-state charge-transfer (CT) complex in a conjugated polymer:metal oxide nanoparticle bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cell is demonstrated by Fourier-transform photocurrent spectroscopy (FTPS). The CT complex between poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) is characterized by a weak additional photocurrent band (onset 1eV) in the FTPS spectra, situated below the conjugated polymer bandgap of 2eV. The presence of CT interaction between P3HT and TiO2 in relation to frontier orbital alignment is discussed, as well as the contribution of a sub-bandgap interfacial CT state to the electron transfer process in P3HT:TiO2 solar cells.
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