Electromodulation and magnetomodulation of exciton dissociation in electron donor (starburst amine) : electron acceptor (bathocuproine) system

•We studied electric field dependence of photoluminescence (PL) and photocurrent (PC).•The mechanism of electromodulation stays in accordance with the Onsager description.•The positive magnetic field effects on PL and PCs have been observed.•The magnetic field effects are due to hyperfine field structure modulation.•Results are important for charge recombination/separation description in OLEDs/OPVs.

Electric field dependencies of electromodulated photoluminescence and photocurrents as well as the magnetic field effects on photocurrents, photovoltaic characteristics, electromodulated photoluminescence and photoluminescence have been investigated in vacuum evaporated films of m-MTDATA:BCP (4,4′,4″-tris(N-(3-methylphenyl)-N-phenylamino)triphenylamine and bathocuproine) system. The electromodulation processes do remain in accordance with Onsager as well as with the Sano–Tachiya–Noolandi–Hong formalisms of electron–hole pair separation. While the electromodulated photocurrents are due to operation of both long-radius and short-radius e–h pairs, the electromodulated photoluminescence quenching is related to merely short-radius fraction of the e–h pairs involved in the exciplex creation process. The photocurrents, photovoltaic characteristics, photoluminescence and electromodulated photoluminescence are influenced by external magnetic field of the hyperfine coupling (HFC) scale which modulates the singlet–triplet intersystem crossing of long-radius e–h pairs.

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