title: Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Organic Solar Cells.
abstract: Electron transfer (ET) is the key process in light-driven charge separation reactions in organic solar cells. The current review summarizes the progress in theoretical modelling of ET in these materials. First we give an account of ET, with a description originating from Marcus theory. We systematically go through all the relevant parameters and show how they depend on different material properties, and discuss the consequences such dependencies have for the performance of the devices. Finally, we present a set of visualization methods which have proven to be very useful in analyzing the elementary processes in absorption and charge separation events. Such visualization tools help us to understand the properties of the photochemical and photobiological systems in solar cells.
authors: Department of Physics, Liaoning University, Shenyang, 110036, P. R. China.|Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.|State Key laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Science, Dalian, 116023, P. R. China.
authors: Peng
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authors: Song
authors: Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.|College of Science, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, P. R. China.
authors: Yuanzuo
authors: Y
authors: Li
authors: Department of Physics, Liaoning University, Shenyang, 110036, P. R. China.
authors: Fengcai
authors: F
authors: Ma
authors: Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Box 124, Lund, 22100, Sweden.|State Key laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics Chinese Academy of Science, Dalian, 116023, P. R. China.
authors: Tõnu
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authors: Pullerits
authors: Department of Physics, Liaoning University, Shenyang, 110036, P. R. China.|Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
authors: Mengtao
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authors: Sun
keywords: electron transfer; electronic coupling; free energy; photochemistry; reorganization energy