Organic charge transfer complexes (CTCs) with near-infrared absorption received growing interest in the past years, but the details of their photophysics, especially in thin films, remain largely unknown. We combined experimental and computational methods to thoroughly investigate and compare CTCs formed by tetracene with 2,2′-(perfluoronaphthalene-2,6-diylidene)dimalononitrile and 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8,-tetracyanoquinodimethane, respectively. Using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy, the photophysics of these small bandgap CTCs was revealed, which is dominated by a sub-picosecond relaxation of the excitons back to the ground state. In equimolar blends, tetracene singlet fission is suppressed while in blends with excess of tetracene reduced lifetimes of tetracene, singlet and triplet excitons were found.
The journal of physical chemistry. C, Energy, materials, and catalysis Washington, DC : Soc., 2007 125(2021), 11, Seite 6313-6323 Online-Ressource
von Kyrylo Greben ; Sviatoslav Kovalchuk ; Ana M. Valencia ; Jan N. Kirchhof ; Sebastian Heeg ; Philipp Rietsch ; Stephanie Reich ; Caterina Cocchi ; Siegfried Eigler ; Kirill I. Bolotin
