The Effect of H‐ and J‐Aggregation on the Photophysical and Photovoltaic Properties of Small Thiophene–Pyridine–DPP Molecules for Bulk‐Heterojunction Solar Cells
By Miriam Más‐Montoya, René A. J. Janssen. 2017
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The performance of organic semiconductors in optoelectronic devices depends on the functional properties of the individual molecules and their mutual orientations when they are in the solid state. The effect of H‐ and J‐aggregation on the photophysical properties and photovoltaic behavior of four electronically identical but structurally different thiophene–pyridine–diketopyrrolopyrrole molecules is studied. By introducing and changing the position of two hexyl side chains on the two peripheral thiophene units of these molecules, their aggregation in thin films between H‐type and J‐type is effectively tuned, as evidenced from the characteristics of optical absorption, fluorescence, and excited state lifetime. The two derivatives that assemble into J‐type aggregates exhibit a significantly enhanced photovoltaic performance, up to an order of magnitude, compared to the two molecules that form H‐type aggregates. The reasons for this remarkably different behavior are discussed.
Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics
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- Supramolecular packing dominant photocatalytic oxidation and anticancer performance of PDI (2018, background): “Normally, the lowest-energy emission is forbidden in H-aggregates, but dipole-allowed for J-type aggregation, which results in the blue-shift of UV–vis absorption, red-shift of fluorescence emission and the fluorescent quenching in H-aggregates [17,32].”