Because of depletion of fossil fuels and environmental pollution, organic photovoltaic device (OPV) has received much interest as one of the ways to supersede fossil fuels due to their many advantages. In particular, porphyrin, pyrene, diimide and ace...
Because of depletion of fossil fuels and environmental pollution, organic photovoltaic device (OPV) has received much interest as one of the ways to supersede fossil fuels due to their many advantages. In particular, porphyrin, pyrene, diimide and acene have been considered as suitable for fabrication of OPVs because of their intense absorption, high stability, sufficient excited state lifetime and flexible tenability of their optical properties. To reveal the applicability and to enhance the efficiency of OPVs, many research groups have long attempted to establish their photophysical properties. However, the researches were limited to display simple relaxation, energy and electron transfer dynamics in the excited-state of these molecular systems.
In this regard, I investigated the effect of π-conjugation, intramolecular charge transfer by two-photon excitation, diradical character generation by simple chemical oxidation and applicability of singlet exciton fission. The effect of π-conjugation was investigated by time-resolved spectroscopy in 1,3-butadiyne-bridged Zn(II) porphyrins and Zn(II)porphyrin–[26]hexaphyrin–Zn(II)porphyrin hybrids. In these researches, I verified that electronic couplings between porphyrin moieties is largely affected by 1,3-butadiyne-bridges and electronic relaxation processes in highly conjugated systems can overtakes their vibrational relaxation processes. In addition, the intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) by two-photon excitation was studied in pyrene derivatives, which have the same number of donating group but different molecular symmetry. Based on the experimental and theoretical analyses, it was identified that ICT dynamics in two-photon absorption state is different from that in one-photon absorption state, which be attributed to molecular symmetry. Moreover, it was established that the strong and stable diradical character can be generated by simple chemical oxidation in a naphthalene diimide derivative, which was confirmed by various experimental and theoretical analyses. Finally, I certified the applicability of singlet fission process in perovskite solar cell through direct observation of electron transfer dynamics from triplet state of TIPS-pentacene generated by singlet fission process to the conduction band of MAPbI3 perovskite. These research can provide new opportunity to expand their applicability in the various practical devices. Although the researches were based on fundamental molecular systems, I believe that the results can be applicable in various molecular systems to develop research on OPVs.