A study on carrier-collection efficiency in various organic photovoltaic systems now reveals that ultrafast relaxation of photoexcitations within the manifold of charge-transfer states does not impede mobile charge carrier generation.
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Moses, D. Efficient relaxation. Nature Mater 13, 4–5 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3842
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