TABACHNYK, M., A.H. KARANI, K. BROCH, L.M. PAZOS-OUTON, J. XIAO, T.C. JELLICOE, Jiří NOVÁK, D. HARKIN, A.J. PEARSON, A. RAO, N.C. GREENHAM, M.L. BOHM and R.H. FRIEND. Efficient singlet exciton fission in pentacene prepared from a soluble precursor. APL MATERIALS. MELVILLE: AMER INST PHYSICS, vol. 4, No 11, p. "nestrankovano", 6 pp. ISSN 2166-532X. doi:10.1063/1.4968518. 2016.
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Original name Efficient singlet exciton fission in pentacene prepared from a soluble precursor
Authors TABACHNYK, M. (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), A.H. KARANI (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), K. BROCH (276 Germany), L.M. PAZOS-OUTON (276 Germany), J. XIAO (156 China), T.C. JELLICOE (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), Jiří NOVÁK (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), D. HARKIN (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), A.J. PEARSON (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), A. RAO (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), N.C. GREENHAM (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland), M.L. BOHM (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and R.H. FRIEND (826 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland).
Edition APL MATERIALS, MELVILLE, AMER INST PHYSICS, 2016, 2166-532X.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 10302 Condensed matter physics
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
WWW Webová adresa publikace
Impact factor Impact factor: 4.335
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/16:00092838
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4968518
UT WoS 000390228300014
Keywords in English exciton fission; photovoltaics; organic semiconductors; pentacene; acenes solubility; FTIR; atomic force microscopy; X-ray diffraction; spin-cotaing; molecular beam deposition
Tags AKR, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS., učo 437722. Changed: 5/3/2020 11:49.
Abstract
Carrier multiplication using singlet exciton fission ( SF) to generate a pair of spin-triplet excitons from a single optical excitation has been highlighted as a promising approach to boost the photocurrent in photovoltaics (PVs) thereby allowing PV operation beyond the Shockley-Queisser limit. The applicability of many efficient fission materials, however, is limited due to their poor solubility. For instance, while acene-based organics such as pentacene ( Pc) show high SF yields ( up to 200%), the plain acene backbone renders the organic molecule insoluble in common organic solvents. Previous approaches adding solubilizing side groups such as bis(tri-iso-propylsilylethynyl) to the Pc core resulted in low vertical carrier mobilities due to reduction of the transfer integrals via steric hindrance, which prevented high efficiencies in PVs. Here we show how to achieve good solubility while retaining the advantages of molecular Pc by using a soluble precursor route. The precursor fully converts into molecular Pc through thermal removal of the solubilizing side groups upon annealing above 150 degrees C in the solid state. The annealed precursor shows small differences in the crystallinity compared to evaporated thin films of Pc, indicating that the Pc adopts the bulk rather than surface polytype. Furthermore, we identify identical SF properties such as sub-100 fs fission time and equally long triplet lifetimes in both samples. (C) 2016 Author(s).
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