Heterodyne transient vibrational SFG to reveal molecular responses to interfacial charge transfer
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- Yingmin Li
- Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California 1 , San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Bo Xiang
- Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California 1 , San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
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- Wei Xiong
- Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California 1 , San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2019-03-21
- DOI
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- 10.1063/1.5066237
- 公開者
- AIP Publishing
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<jats:p>We demonstrate heterodyne detected transient vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectroscopy and use it to probe transient electric fields caused by interfacial charge transfer at organic semiconductor and metal interfaces. The static and transient VSFG spectra are composed of both non-resonant and molecular resonant responses. To further disentangle both contributions, we apply phase rotation to make the imaginary part of the spectra be purely molecular responses and the real part of the spectra be dominated by non-resonant signals. By separating non-resonant and molecular signals, we can track their responses to the transient electric-fields at interfaces independently. This technique combined with the phase sensitivity gained by heterodyne detection allows us to successfully identify three types of photoinduced dynamics at organic semiconductor/metal interfaces: coherent artifacts, optical excitations that do not lead to charge transfer, and direct charge transfers. The ability to separately follow the influence of built-in electric fields to interfacial molecules, regardless of strong non-resonant signals, will enable tracking of ultrafast charge dynamics with molecular specificities on molecular optoelectronics, photovoltaics, and solar materials.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- The Journal of Chemical Physics
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The Journal of Chemical Physics 150 (11), 114706-, 2019-03-21
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