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Authors Guskova, O. ; Schünemann, C. ; Eichhorn, K.-J. ; Walzer, K. ; Levichkova, M. ; Grundmann, S. ; Sommer, J.-U.
Title Light absorption in organic thin films: the importance of oriented molecules
Date 28.08.2013
Number 39207
Abstract In this work we apply a joint experimental and theoretical approach to investigate thin films of side chain substituted dicyanovinyl quaterthiophenes (DCV4T-Et2) and DCV4T-Et2:C60 blends, prototypic absorbers for small molecule organic solar cells. Structural characterization of the morphology of thin films thermally deposited at different substrate temperatures on a silica surface was performed by variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry, grazing incidence X-ray diffraction, and atomic force microscopy measurements. These methods, combined with full-atomistic molecular dynamic (MD) simulation, provide detailed information about thin film morphology, namely about molecular orientation, absorption, phase separation, and crystallinity, i.e., factors that affect the efficiency of organic solar cells. Using molecular dynamics simulation, we can constitute why the DCV4T-Et2 molecules arrange strongly tilted in pristine (69° to 70° tilt angle to the substrate normal) and DCV4T-Et2:C60 blend films (tilt angle of 65° to 69°).
Publisher Journal of Physical Chemistry / C
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Citation Journal of Physical Chemistry / C 117 (2013) 17285-17293
DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/jp4048083
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