Signature optique d’effet Stark dans une bicouche de CuPc:C60
Nowadays, the donor/acceptor (D/A) structure is one of the most popular configuration for organic solar cells. The charge separation mechanisms in this type of systems is now a hot topic of debate in this field of research. To adress this debate, we choose a D/A system made of copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) and fullerene (C60). In this work, we perform quasi-steady-state photoinduced absorption (PIA) measurements which consist of a pump-probe experiment where we measure the fractional change in transmission through the sample. This experiment probes the excited states of our molecules and gives us informations about the photophysics near the interface between the two materials. The measurements were mainly done at T=10K. We observe a strong modulation of the ground state photobleaching that indicates that the laser excitation induces a shift of the ground state absorption spectrum. This shift can be ascribed to two processes: either the pump is heating the sample (heat transfer) or charge are being created at the interface between the two materials (Stark effect). The temperature dependence of the absorption spectrum between T=10K and T=290K shows a thermal signature for a change in temperature of 80K. By calculating the ratio of the Raman Stokes and anti-Stokes peaks, we establish that the pump heat up the sample of 34K, an insufficient temperature to assign the change of transmittance to a thermal effect. We then evaporate our CuPc/C60 bilayer on ITO and sapphire, two substrates with different thermal conductivities and we observe the same signal thereby excluding the assumption of the thermal effect. Since our study bears a resemblance to Stark spectroscopy, we justify the use of a similar analysis by comparing our PIA signal to the transmittance spectrum of our molecules and its first and second derivative. We find that the signal reproduces almost perfectly the second derivative. Thus, we attribute the aforementioned results to an optical signature of Stark effect due to the creation of charges at the heterojunction.
Organic photovoltaic Charges seperation Heterojunction Donor/acceptor system Photoinduced absorption