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A Close Look at Charge Generation in Polymer:Fullerene Blends with Microstructure Control

Scarongella, Mariateresa ; Jonghe-Risse, Jelissa De ; Buchaca-Domingo, Ester ; Causa, Martina ; Fei, Zhuping ; Heeney, Martin ; Moser, Jacques-E. ; Stingelin, Natalie ; Banerji, Natalie

In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, vol. 137, no. 8, p. 2908–2918

We reveal some of the key mechanisms during charge generation in polymer:fullerene blends exploiting our well-defined understanding of the microstructures obtained in pBTTT:PCBM systems via processing with fatty acid methyl ester additives. Based on ultrafast transient absorption, electro-absorption, and fluorescence up-conversion spectroscopy, we find that exciton diffusion through relatively...

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Importance of intramolecular electron spin relaxation in small molecule semiconductors

Schulz, Leander ; Willis, M. ; Nuccio, L. ; Shusharov, P. ; Fratini, S. ; Pratt, F. L. ; Gillin, W. P. ; Kreouzis, T. ; Heeney, M. ; Stingelin, N. ; Stafford, C. A. ; Beesley, D. J. ; Bernhard, Christian ; Anthony, J. E. ; McKenzie, I. ; Lord, J. S. ; Drew, Alan J.

In: Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2011, vol. 84, no. 8, p. 085209

Electron spin relaxation rate (eSR) is investigated on several organic semiconductors of different morphologies and molecular structures, using avoided level crossing muon spectroscopy as a local spin probe. We find that two functionalized acenes (polycrystalline tri(isopropyl)silyl-pentacene and amorphous 5,6,11,12- tetraphenyltetracene) exhibit eSRs with an Arrhenius-like temperature...

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