Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) constitute a promising new technology due to their low production costs. However, OPV efficiencies remain low because excitons typically diffuse only ∼5-20 nm during their lifetime, limiting the effective thickness of the light-absorbing layer. One strategy to improve OPVs is to increase exciton lifetimes by converting them into triplet states, which typically persist 10(3)-10(5) times longer than singlet excitons. We present femtosecond transient absorption and steady-state photovoltaic measurements of a model OPV system consisting of diphenyltetracene (DPT) films doped with platinum tetraphenylbenzoporphyrin (Pt(TPBP)). Photoexcitation of Pt(TPBP) creates a singlet excitation that rapidly intersystem crosses to a triplet state before transferring to the DPT host matrix. This transfer is rapid and efficient, occurring in 35 ps with an 85% conversion ratio of porphyrin singlets to DPT triplets. These triplet excitons lead to enhanced photocurrent response that increases with device thickness.
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