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Improving solar control of magnetism in ternary organic photovoltaic system with enhanced photo-induced electrons doping

Yujing Du1,§, Shiping Wang2,§, Lei Wang3( ), Shengye Jin2, Yifan Zhao1( ), Tai Min3, Zhuangde Jiang4, Ziyao Zhou1, Ming Liu1
Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education & International Center for Dielectric Research, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, the International Joint Laboratory for Micro/Nano Manufacturing and Measurement Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
Center for Spintronics and Quantum Systems, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of High-End Manufacturing Equipment, the International Joint Laboratory for Micro/Nano Manufacturing and Measurement Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China

§Yujing Du and Shiping Wang contributed equally to this work.

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Abstract

The growing demand for storage space has promoted in-depth research on magnetic performance regulation in an energy-saving way. Recently, we developed a solar control of magnetism, allowing the magnetic moment to be manipulated by sunlight instead of the magnetic field, current, or laser. Here, binary and ternary photoactive systems with different photon-to-electron conversions are proposed. The photovoltaic/magnetic heterostructures with a ternary system induce larger magnetic changes due to higher short current density (JSC) (20.92 mA·cm−2) compared with the binary system (11.94 mA·cm−2). During the sunlight illumination, ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) shift increases by 80% (from 169.52 to 305.48 Oe) attributed to enhanced photo-induced electrons doping, and the variation of saturation magnetization (MS) is also amplified by 14% (from 9.9% to 11.3%). Furthermore, photovoltaic performance analysis and the transient absorption (TA) spectra indicate that the current density plays a major role in visible light manipulating magnetism. These findings clarify the laws of sunlight control of magnetism and lay the foundation for the next generation solar-driven magneto-optical memory applications.

Keywords

multiferroic heterostructuremagnetoelectric couplingferromagnetic resonancemagnetic anisotropyinterface charge doping

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Nano Research
Volume 15 Issue 3,
March 2022
Pages 2626-2633
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3841-x
Cite this article:
Du Y, Wang S, Wang L, et al. Improving solar control of magnetism in ternary organic photovoltaic system with enhanced photo-induced electrons doping. Nano Research, 2022, 15(3): 2626-2633. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3841-x
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Received: 28 May 2021
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