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“Twisted” conjugated molecules as donor materials for efficient all-small-molecule organic solar cells processed with tetrahydrofuran
摘要： High-performance organic semiconductors that can be processed with environmentally benign solvents are highly desirable for printable optoelectronics. Herein, four acceptor–donor–acceptor conjugated molecules, i.e., DRTT-T, DRTT-R, DRTT-OR and DRTT, with 3-ethylrhodanine as acceptor terminal units and 2,5-bis(4,8-di(5-(2-ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl)benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b0]dithiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene derivatives as donor units were synthesized. 5-(2-Ethylhexyl)thiophen-2-yl, 2-ethylhexyl and 2-ethylhexyloxy were introduced at the b-positions of the central thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (TT) units in DRTT-T, DRTT-R and DRTT-OR, respectively, and unsubstituted TT was used as the central unit in DRTT. As revealed by density functional theory calculations, DRTT-OR and DRTT adopt an almost planar geometry, while DRTT-T and DRTT-R have “twisted” backbones due to the introduction of bulky substituents on TT units. Di?ering from DRTT-OR and DRTT which are only well soluble in chlorinated solvents such as chloroform, DRTT-T and DRTT-R also show high solubility in “greener” solvents, including toluene and tetrahydrofuran (THF). Non-fullerene small molecule (NFSM) organic solar cells (OSCs) were fabricated with these molecules as donor materials. The molecules (DRTT-T and DRTT-R) with twisted backbones displayed remarkably higher device performance compared to more planar ones (DRTT-OR and DRTT), attributed to the formation of ordered face-on microstructures with p–p stacking distances of 3.7–3.8 ?A and interpenetration networks of donor and acceptor components in the blend ?lms based on DRTT-T and DRTT-R. Most importantly, the power conversion e?ciencies (PCEs) of DRTT-T and DRTT-R based devices processed with THF reached 9.37% and 10.45%, respectively. This study demonstrates that “twisting” conjugated backbones is an appropriate strategy to design eco-friendly solvent processable organic semiconductors for high-e?ciency OSCs.
关键词： conjugated molecules,tetrahydrofuran,organic solar cells,donor materials,power conversion efficiencies
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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High-yielding Pd <sub/>2</sub> (dba) <sub/>3</sub> ·C <sub/>6</sub> H <sub/>6</sub> -based four-fold Sonogashira coupling with selenophene-conjugated magnesium tetraethynylporphyrin for organic solar cells
摘要： A catalytic system using Pd2(dba)3$(C6H6)/PPh3/CuI for Sonogashira coupling was demonstrated to synthesize a selenophene-conjugated magnesium tetraethynylporphyrin Mg-TEP-(Se-DPP)4 (2a). The terminal alkynes of magnesium tetraethynylporphyrin with bromoselenophene-tethered diketopyrrolopyrroles (DPPs) to produce the desired star-shaped 2a in 80% yield. This molecule shows higher solubility in organic solvents, more efficient visible and near-infrared region absorption, and a narrower band gap compared with reference thiophene-conjugated congeners. Two strategies, namely, selenium substitution and end-capping, were investigated to optimize bulk heterojunction structures in the active layers of organic solar cells. The optimized device based on 2a:PC61BM exhibited the highest PCE of 6.09% among the tested devices after solvent vapor annealing, owing to efficient exciton dissociation, balanced carrier mobility, and suppressed carrier recombination in the film's ordered morphology.
关键词： end-capping,selenium substitution,Sonogashira coupling,selenophene-conjugated magnesium tetraethynylporphyrin,organic solar cells
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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Effect of Top Channel Thickness in Near Infrared Organic Phototransistors with Conjugated Polymer Gate-Sensing Layers
摘要： Here, we report the thickness effect of top channel layers (CLs) on the performance of near infrared (NIR)-detecting organic phototransistors (OPTRs) with conjugated polymer gate-sensing layers (GSLs). Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) was employed as a top CL, while poly[{2,5-bis-(2-octyldodecyl)-3,6-bis-(thien-2-yl)-pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-diyl}-co-{2,2-(2,1,3-benzothiadiazole)-5,5-diyl}] (PODTPPD-BT) was used as a GSL. The thickness of P3HT CLs was varied from 10 to 70 nm. Three different wavelengths of NIR light (λ = 780, 905, and 1000 nm) were introduced and their light intensity was fixed to 0.27 mW cm?2. Results showed that all fabricated devices exhibited typical p-channel transistor behaviors and the highest drain current in the dark was obtained at the P3HT thickness (t) of 50 nm. The NIR illumination test revealed that the NIR photoresponsivity (RC) of GSL-OPTRs could be achieved at t = 50 nm irrespective of the NIR wavelength. The maximum RC of the optimized devices (t = 50 nm) reached ca. 61% at λ = 780 nm and ca. 47% at λ = 1000 nm compared to the theoretical maximum photoresponsivity.
关键词： near infrared,organic phototransistors,channel layers,conjugated polymers
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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Tailoring a Molecule’s Optical Absorbance Using Surface Plasmonics
摘要： Understanding the interaction of light with molecules physisorbed on substrates is a fundamental problem in photonics, with applications in biosensing, photovoltaics, photocatalysis, plasmonics, and nanotechnology. However, the design of novel functional materials in silico is severely hampered by the lack of robust and computationally efficient methods for describing both molecular absorbance and screening on substrates. Here we employ our hybrid G0[W0 + ?W]-BSE implementation, which incorporates the substrate via its screening ?W at both the quasiparticle G0W0 level and when solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE). We show this method can be used to both efficiently and accurately describe the absorption spectra of physisorbed molecules on metal substrates and thereby tailor the molecule’s absorbance by altering the surface plasmon’s energy. Specifically, we investigate how the optical absorption spectra of three prototypical π-conjugated molecules: benzene (C6H6), terrylene (C30H16) and fullerene (C60), depends on the Wigner-Seitz radius rs of the metallic substrate. To gain further understanding of the light–molecule/substrate interaction, we also study the bright exciton’s electron and hole densities and their interactions with infrared active vibrational modes. Our results show that (1) benzene’s bright E1 2u exciton at 7.0 eV, whose energy is insensitive to changes in rs, could be relevant for photocatalytic dehydrogenation and polymerization reactions, (2) terrylene’s bright B3u exciton at 2.3 eV hybridizes with the surface plasmon, allowing the tailoring of the excitonic energy and optical activation of a surface plasmon-like exciton, and (3) fullerene’s π ? π? bright and dark excitons at 6.4 and 6.8 eV hybridize with the surface plasmon, resulting in the tailoring of their excitonic energy and the activation of both a surface plasmon-like exciton and a dark quadrupolar mode via symmetry breaking by the substrate. This work demonstrates how a proper description of interfacial light–molecular/substrate interactions enables the prediction, design, and optimization of technologically relevant phenomena in silico.
关键词： Plasmonics,Optical Absorbance,π-conjugated molecules,Fullerene,Excitons,Hybrid Materials,Benzene,Surface Plasmonics,Magnetic,Infrared active vibrational modes,Wigner-Seitz radius,Optical,Terrylene
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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[IEEE 2019 International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC) - Busan, Korea (South) (2019.4.28-2019.5.1)] 2019 International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC) - Notice of Removal: Compact Waveguide Coupler with Broadband and High Coupling Flatness
摘要： In this paper, we investigate the properties of transmission links amplified by phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs). Using an analytic description, we explain the principles enabling improved sensitivity compared to conventional links amplified by phase-insensitive amplifiers (PIAs) and mitigation of nonlinear transmission distortions. We demonstrate these features using numerical simulations, and in particular, we show the possibility of efficiently mitigating both self-phase modulation (SPM)-induced distortions and nonlinear phase noise (NLPN) if the link dispersion map is optimized. The properties of the noise on signal and idler are important and to enable NLPN mitigation, the noise must be correlated at the link input. We investigate the role of the dispersion map in detail and show that in a link with standard single mode fiber (SSMF) the optimum dispersion map for efficient nonlinearity mitigation corresponds to precompensation of an amount equal to the effective loss length. Furthermore, we experimentally demonstrate both improved sensitivity and mitigation of nonlinearities in a 105 km PSA-amplified link transmitting 10 GBd 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) data. We measure a combined effect allowing for more than 12 dB larger span loss in a PSA-amplified link compared to a conventional PIA-amplified link to reach the same bit error ratio (BER) of 1 × 10?3.
关键词： Fiber nonlinearity mitigation,phase-conjugated twin waves,fiber optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs),optical amplifiers,phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs),optical fiber communication
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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[IEEE 2019 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (ICEEI) - Bandung, Indonesia (2019.7.9-2019.7.10)] 2019 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (ICEEI) - Rooftop Photovoltaic Hosting Capacity Assessment: A Case Study of Rural Distribution Grids in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
摘要： In this paper, we investigate the properties of transmission links amplified by phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs). Using an analytic description, we explain the principles enabling improved sensitivity compared to conventional links amplified by phase-insensitive amplifiers (PIAs) and mitigation of nonlinear transmission distortions. We demonstrate these features using numerical simulations, and in particular, we show the possibility of efficiently mitigating both self-phase modulation (SPM)-induced distortions and nonlinear phase noise (NLPN) if the link dispersion map is optimized. The properties of the noise on signal and idler are important and to enable NLPN mitigation, the noise must be correlated at the link input. We investigate the role of the dispersion map in detail and show that in a link with standard single mode fiber (SSMF) the optimum dispersion map for efficient nonlinearity mitigation corresponds to precompensation of an amount equal to the effective loss length. Furthermore, we experimentally demonstrate both improved sensitivity and mitigation of nonlinearities in a 105 km PSA-amplified link transmitting 10 GBd 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) data. We measure a combined effect allowing for more than 12 dB larger span loss in a PSA-amplified link compared to a conventional PIA-amplified link to reach the same bit error ratio (BER) of 1 × 10?3.
关键词： Fiber nonlinearity mitigation,phase-conjugated twin waves,fiber optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs),optical amplifiers,phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs),optical fiber communication
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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[IEEE 2019 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST) - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (2019.12.9-2019.12.10)] 2019 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST) - A Multi-frequency WMS Method for Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Tomography
摘要： In this paper, we investigate the properties of transmission links amplified by phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs). Using an analytic description, we explain the principles enabling improved sensitivity compared to conventional links amplified by phase-insensitive amplifiers (PIAs) and mitigation of nonlinear transmission distortions. We demonstrate these features using numerical simulations, and in particular, we show the possibility of efficiently mitigating both self-phase modulation (SPM)-induced distortions and nonlinear phase noise (NLPN) if the link dispersion map is optimized. The properties of the noise on signal and idler are important and to enable NLPN mitigation, the noise must be correlated at the link input. We investigate the role of the dispersion map in detail and show that in a link with standard single mode fiber (SSMF) the optimum dispersion map for efficient nonlinearity mitigation corresponds to precompensation of an amount equal to the effective loss length. Furthermore, we experimentally demonstrate both improved sensitivity and mitigation of nonlinearities in a 105 km PSA-amplified link transmitting 10 GBd 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16QAM) data. We measure a combined effect allowing for more than 12 dB larger span loss in a PSA-amplified link compared to a conventional PIA-amplified link to reach the same bit error ratio (BER) of 1 × 10?3.
关键词： Fiber nonlinearity mitigation,phase-conjugated twin waves,fiber optical parametric amplifiers (FOPAs),optical amplifiers,phase-sensitive amplifiers (PSAs),optical fiber communication
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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Humidity-Controlled Water Uptake and Conductivities in Ion and Electron Mixed Conducting Polythiophene Films
摘要： Mixed conducting polymer films are of great interest in applications where an interface between electronic and ionic charge transport is of high relevance not only for aqueous environments but also for devices that are manufactured at ambient conditions with varying relative humidities. In this contribution, we present our results on the influence of controlled humidity changes on the mixed conductivity and correlation to the concomitant water uptake in the films. Two sulfonate-bearing polythiophene systems are studied: a self-made conjugated polyelectrolyte, poly(6-(thiophen-3-yl)hexane-1-sulfonate)-sodium (PTS-Na), and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT/PSS) with different ratios of PEDOT and the polyelectrolyte PSS. Our data give clear evidence of the similarities between the aforementioned polythiophene systems and pure ionic membranes such as Nafion used in fuel cells. As such, a phase separation between the hydrophobic electronically conducting polythiophene phase and the hydrophilic water-swellable ion-conducting phase is proposed. Changing the humidity from dry conditions up to ～90% relative humidity results in extremely high water uptakes of more than 90 wt %, which corresponds to ～13 water molecules per sulfonate unit at maximum water uptake. Conversely, the electronic conductivity is less sensitive to increasing humidity, which is due to percolation pathways. The ionic conductivity strongly increases from 10?10 S/cm at dry conditions to 10?3 S/cm at around 30 wt % water content and then levels off at maximum conductivities of 10?3?10?2 S/cm up to water contents of 90 wt %.
关键词： water content,conjugated polyelectrolyte,PEDOT/PSS,AC impedance,mixed conductivity
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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Broadband polymer photodetectors with a good trade-off between broad response and high detectivity by using combined electron-deficient moieties
摘要： High-performance broadband photodetectors based on low-bandgap conjugated polymers are scarce due to a trade-off between the photoresponse range and device performance. In this work, the polymers with structural features responsible for both broad response and high detectivity are realized by using the combined electron deficient moieties at the molecular level. Based on the electron-deficient diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) and benzothiadiazole (BT), the combined units of DPP-DPP and DPP-BT-DPP are deemed more electron deficient and were successfully incorporated into the corresponding polymers. The arrangement of electron deficient moieties in the polymer mainchain were found to be able to greatly affect the absorption profile, energy level, molecular stacking, and blend film morphology. Consequently, the photodetector based on the polymer with DPP-BT-DPP acceptor exhibited the D* value of over 1012 Jones in the spectral region of 320–930 nm under -0.1 V bias.
关键词： low-bandgap conjugated polymers,electron deficient moieties,high detectivity,DPP,broadband photodetectors,BT
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52
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Detection of E. coli labeled with metal-conjugated antibodies using lateral-flow assay and laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
摘要： This study explores the adoption of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for the analysis of lateral-flow immunoassays (LFIAs). Gold (Au) nanoparticles are standard biomolecular labels among LFIAs, typically detected via colorimetric means. A wide diversity of lanthanide-complexed polymers (LCPs) are also used as immunoassay labels but are inapt for LFIAs due to lab-bound detection instrumentation. This is the first study to show the capability of LIBS to transition LCPs into the realm of LFIAs, and one of the few to apply LIBS to biomolecular label detection in complete immunoassays. Initially, an in-house LIBS system was optimized to detect an Au standard through a process of line selection across acquisition delay times, followed by determining limit of detection (LOD). The optimized LIBS system was applied to Au-labeled Escherichia coli detection on a commercial LFIA; comparison with colorimetric detection yielded similar LODs (1.03E4 and 8.890E3 CFU/mL respectively). Optimization was repeated with lanthanide standards to determine if they were viable alternatives to Au labels. It was found that europium (Eu) and ytterbium (Yb) may be more favorable biomolecular labels than Au. To test whether Eu-complexed polymers conjugated to antibodies could be used as labels in LFIAs, the conjugates were successfully applied to E. coli detection in a modified commercial LFIA. The results suggest interesting opportunities for creating highly multiplexed LFIAs. Multiplexed, sensitive, portable, and rapid LIBS detection of biomolecules concentrated and labeled on LFIAs is highly relevant for applications like food safety, where in-field food contaminant detection is critical.
关键词： Lateral-flow immunoassay,E. coli,Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy,Lanthanides,Metal-conjugated antibodies
更新于2025-09-16 10:30:52