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- Gadisa, Abay, et al.
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Correlation between oxidation potential and open-circuit voltage of composite solar cells based on blends of polythiophenes/fullerene derivative
- 2004
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Ingår i: Applied Physics Letters. - : AIP Publishing. - 0003-6951 .- 1077-3118. ; 84:9, s. 1609-1611
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The photovoltaic parameters of donor/acceptor blend organic solar cells are highly influenced by several parameters, such as the strength of the acceptor species, the morphology of the film due to the solvent, and the mobility of the free charge carriers. In this work, the open-circuit voltage (Voc) of solar cells based on series of conjugated polythiophene polymers were measured and compared. In every cell, the donor polymer was blended with an electron acceptor fullerene molecule. The devices were constructed in a sandwich structure with indium tin oxide (ITO)/metallic polymer (PEDOT:PSS) acting as an anode and Al or LiF/Al acting as a cathode. Comparing the Voc of all the cells shows that this important photovoltaic parameter is systematically varying with the polymer. The variation of photovoltage is attributed to the variation of the oxidation potential of the donor conjugated polymers after due consideration of the different injection conditions in the varying polymers.
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- Ruseckas, Arvydas, et al.
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Luminescence quenching by inter-chain aggregates in substituted polythiophenes
- 2001
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Ingår i: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chemistry. - 1873-2666 .- 1010-6030. ; 144:1, s. 3-12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Time-resolved photo luminescence spectra measured in solid films of two polythiophene derivatives with different chain packing allow to distinguish emission of intra-chain excitations from the luminescence of inter-chain aggregates. Aggregate luminescence is red shifted by about 0.1 eV relative to intra-chain emission and shows vibronic coupling to the C=C bond stretch with the Huang-Phys factor of S approximate to 1.5, which is twice bigger than that of the intra-chain emission. Combining time resolved luminescence data with femtosecond transient absorption, we show that the dynamic quenching of the luminescence in films with dense chain packing is mainly due to excitation energy transfer to aggregates. The radiative lifetime of the lowest excited state of the aggregate with the optical gap of 1.84-1.9 eV is estimated to be about 20 ns. The aggregate contribution to the total luminescence in the polythiophene films with dense chain packing is about 50% and does not change significantly with temperature. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Wang, Xiangjun, et al.
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Electrophosphorescence from substituted poly(thiophene) doped with iridium or platinum complex
- 2004
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Ingår i: Thin Solid Films. - : Elsevier BV. - 0040-6090 .- 1879-2731. ; 468:1-2, s. 226-233
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Electrophosphorescence has been observed in doped polythiophene light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with poly(3-methyl-4-octylthiophene) [PMOT] as host and the phosphorescent compounds bis(2-phenylbenzothiazole) iridium acetylacetonate (BTIr) or platinum(II) 2,8,12,17-tetraethyl-3,7,13,18-tramethyl porphyrin (PtOX) as guest. The photoluminescence (PL) and electroluminescence (EL) of host–phosphorescent guest blends PMOT:BTIr (or PMOT:PtOX) showed the existence of energy transfer from host to guest, which were guest concentration-dependent. At a certain guest concentration, emission from host PMOT was completely quenched in both blends based LEDs, and this gave rise to electrophosphorescence. The PL from host PMOT in the PMOT:BTIr blend film could not be quenched completely but was totally quenched in PMOT:PtOX. This implies a more efficient energy transfer from PMOT to PtOX than that from PMOT to BTIr under optical excitation. Comparison of PL and EL showed that the mechanism of exciton formation at the guest site under electrical excitation was not identical for these two systems. Energy transfer was a dominating route for exciton formation in PMOT:PtOX-based LEDs; charge trapping effect additionally contributed to the formation of exciton at BTIr in PMOT:BTIr-based LEDs. This study demonstrates a new direction in which polythiophene can be a candidate as a host to realize electrophosphorescence in polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs). Authors further indicate that to optimize the performance of the polythiophe/phosphorescent complexes, LEDs proper polythiophenes with large bang gap are needed.
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