Material crystallinity as a determinant of triplet dynamics and oxygen quenching in donor polymers for organic photovoltaic devices

Ying W. Soon, Safa Shoaee, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Hugo Bronstein, Bob C. Schroeder, Weimin Zhang, Zhuping Fei, Martin Heeney, Iain McCulloch, James R. Durrant

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with the photophysics of triplet excitons in conjugated donor polymers, and their quenching by molecular oxygen. These photophysics are assayed by transient absorption spectroscopy, and correlated with X-ray diffraction measurements of relative material crystallinity. Eleven different donor polymers are considered, including representatives from several classes of donor polymers recently developed for organic solar cell applications. Triplet lifetimes in an inert (nitrogen) environment range from
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1474-1482
Number of pages9
JournalAdvanced Functional Materials
Volume24
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 12 2014
Externally publishedYes

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemical Engineering
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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