Engineering polymer frontier orbitals for efficient photon harvesting

Sam-Shajing Sun; Wondwossen Arasho; Tanya David

doi:10.1117/12.2062224

17 September 2014 Engineering polymer frontier orbitals for efficient photon harvesting

Sam-Shajing Sun, Wondwossen Arasho, Tanya David

Proceedings Volume 9226, Nanophotonics and Macrophotonics for Space Environments VIII; 92260M (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2062224
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2014, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

A series of new conjugated polymers with evolving frontier orbitals (HOMOs and LUMOs) have been designed, synthesized, and characterized for potential polymer based photon harvesting device applications such as solar cells and photo detectors. The relationships between monomer or repeat unit side groups, frontier orbitals of the polymer, and changes in optoelectronic and physical properties of the polymer systems have been systematically investigated and correlated. For instance, when comparing the properties of the newly synthesized polymers in two groups: sulfone-based and phenyl-based, the difference in thermal stability and optical properties were consistent when changing from the carbazole monomer unit to the terephthaldicarboxaldehyde. The polymers containing the carbazole unit exhibited increased thermal stability, blue shift of optical absorption, higher frontier orbitals, and larger band gaps than the terephthaldicarboxaldehyde containing counterparts. These could be attributed to the higher electron density of the carbazole than the terephthaldicarboxaldehyde, and the possible deviation from planarity in the polymer main chain due to possible steric hindrance of the branched substituents.

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Sam-Shajing Sun, Wondwossen Arasho, and Tanya David "Engineering polymer frontier orbitals for efficient photon harvesting", Proc. SPIE 9226, Nanophotonics and Macrophotonics for Space Environments VIII, 92260M (17 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2062224

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