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  • Quantum dynamics
  • Energy conversion technologies

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  • Excited electron dynamics at semiconductor-molecule interfaces are crucial for energy conversion.
  • Quantitative understanding of molecular influence on quantum dynamics is challenging due to complex, multi-timescale processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate how molecular features control excited electron dynamics.
  • Analyze electron transfer processes at a representative semiconductor-molecule interface.

Main Methods:

  • First-principles electron dynamics simulations.
  • Modeling the hydrogen-terminated Si(111) surface and a cyanidin molecule interface.

Main Results:

  • Observed short-lived hot electron transfer to the cyanidin molecule.
  • Found interfacial electron transfer decoupled from hot electron relaxation.
  • Determined hot electron relaxation occurs on a femtosecond timescale, while interfacial transfer occurs on a slower picosecond timescale.

Conclusions:

  • Molecular features significantly govern excited electron dynamics at interfaces.
  • Interfacial electron transfer is a distinct, slower process compared to hot electron relaxation.
  • Picosecond interfacial electron transfer is comparable to electron trapping in defect states.