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Revealing Order and Disorder in Films and Single Crystals of a Thiophene-Based Oligomer by Optical Spectroscopy

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Motamen, Sajedeh ; Raithel, Dominic ; Hildner, Richard ; Rahimi, Khosrow ; Jarrosson, Thibaut ; Serein-Spirau, Françoise ; Simon, Laurent ; Reiter, Günter:
Revealing Order and Disorder in Films and Single Crystals of a Thiophene-Based Oligomer by Optical Spectroscopy.
In: ACS Photonics. Vol. 3 (2016) Issue 12 . - pp. 2315-2323.
ISSN 2330-4022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00473

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Project financing: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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Depending on processing conditions, ordered microstructures of conjugated oligomers or polymers exhibit variable amounts of grain boundaries, lattice disorder, and amorphous (disordered) regions. These structural details can be determined very precisely. Their correlations with optical or electronic properties, however, are very difficult to establish, because, for example, optical spectra are usually averaged over regions with different degrees of disorder. In an attempt to facilitate the interpretation of optical spectra, we performed systematic studies on thin films and μm-sized single crystals of thiophene-based conjugated molecules, which allowed identify- ing the relative contributions of ordered and disordered regions in optical emission spectra. A detailed multipeak analysis of the emission spectra showed that the peak positions, the energies of the emitted photons, showed only minor changes, independent if highly ordered or rather disordered samples were examined. However, the relative emission intensity changed significantly between samples. In particular, for highly ordered single crystals the purely electronic 0−0 transition nearly vanished, that is, it was essentially optically forbidden as theoretically predicted. Thus, changes in emission probability are correlated with the degree of structural order in semiconducting conjugated systems and provide a possibility to quantify structural order.

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Keywords: anisotropic behavior; degree of structural order; local spectroscopy; order; organic conjugated oligomer; single crystal
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics > Chair Experimental Physics IX - Spectroscopy of Soft Matter
Profile Fields > Advanced Fields > Polymer and Colloid Science
Research Institutions > Research Centres > Bayreuth Institute of Macromolecular Research - BIMF
Graduate Schools > Bayreuth Graduate School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences (BayNAT) > Photophysics of Synthetic and Biological Multichromophoric Systems
Faculties
Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science
Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics
Profile Fields
Profile Fields > Advanced Fields
Research Institutions
Research Institutions > Research Centres
Graduate Schools
Graduate Schools > Bayreuth Graduate School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences (BayNAT)
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Date Deposited: 28 Apr 2017 08:57
Last Modified: 12 Jan 2023 07:36
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/36884