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Supercell convergence of charge-transfer energies in pentacene molecular crystals from constrained DFT
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Turban, David H. P., Teobaldi, Gilberto, O'Regan, David D. and Hine, Nicholas (2016) Supercell convergence of charge-transfer energies in pentacene molecular crystals from constrained DFT. Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), 93 . 165102. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.165102 ISSN 1098-0121.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.165102
Abstract
Singlet fission (SF) is a multi-exciton generation process that could be harnessed to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic devices. Experimentally, systems derived from the pentacene molecule have been shown to exhibit ultrafast SF with high yields. Charge-transfer (CT) configurations are likely to play an important role as intermediates in the SF process in these systems. In molecular crystals, electrostatic screening effects and band formation can be significant in lowering the energy of CT states, enhancing their potential to effectively participate in SF. In order to simulate these, it desirable to adopt a computational approach which is acceptably accurate, relatively inexpensive, which and scales well to larger systems, thus enabling the study of screening effects. We propose a novel, electrostatically-corrected constrained Density Functional Theory (cDFT) approach as a low-cost solution to the calculation of CT energies in molecular crystals such as pentacene. Here we consider an implementation in the context of the ONETEP linear-scaling DFT code, but our electrostatic correction method is in principle applicable in combination with any constrained DFT implementation, also outside the linear-scaling framework. Our newly developed method allows us to estimate CT energies in the infinite crystal limit, and with these to validate the accuracy of the cluster approximation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Solar cells, Photovoltaic cells, Organic semiconductors | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics) | ||||||||
Publisher: | American Physical Society | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1098-0121 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 April 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 93 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 165102 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.165102 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 March 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 April 2016 | ||||||||
Funder: | Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Royal Irish Academy, Royal Society (Great Britain) |
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