Efficient singlet exciton fission in pentacene prepared from a
soluble precursor

J 2016

Efficient singlet exciton fission in pentacene prepared from a soluble precursor

TABACHNYK, M., A.H. KARANI, K. BROCH, L.M. PAZOS-OUTON, J. XIAO et. al.

Basic information

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

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10302 Condensed matter physics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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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

Abstract

V originále

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).

Links

LQ1601, research and development project

Name: CEITEC 2020 (Acronym: CEITEC2020)

Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR

Citovat

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, 2016, vol. 4, No 11, p. "nestrankovano", 6 pp. ISSN 2166-532X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4968518.

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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. \textit{APL MATERIALS}. MELVILLE: AMER INST PHYSICS, 2016, vol.~4, No~11, p.~''nestrankovano'', 6 pp. ISSN~2166-532X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4968518.

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