Title
Nano-films of carbo-benzene derivatives: Scanning probe microscopy analysis and prospects of use in organic solar cells
Date Issued
01 August 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Caballero-Quintana I.
Barthes C.
Nicasio-Collazo J.
Ramos-Ortíz G.
Maldonado J.L.
Maraval V.
Chauvin R.
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Three carbo-mer derivatives based on a C18Ph4 core decorated with two identical electro-active groups X, i.e. two aromatic carbo-benzenes (1 and 2, X = 4-anilinyl) and one pro-aromatic carbo-quinoid (the carbo-TTF 3, X = 1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene) were studied through Scanning Probe Microscopies (SPMs). Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs) were fabricated (thickness ~160 pm), for the two centrosymmetric representatives 1 and 3, the organization of which on the HOPG substrate was found to be structure-specific. Electrical/electronic properties of the three carbo-mers were determined by using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and its electrical modes: Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM) and conductive Atomic Force Microscopy (c-AFM). Measurements of the work function (∅) through KPFM result in a ∅ = 5.60 eV value for 1, 4.97 eV for 2 and 4.82 eV for 3. Hole mobility (µ) values extracted from local I-V plots by using c-AFM are 15×10−8cm2V−1s−1 for 1, 3×10−6cm2V−1s−1 for 2 and 87×10−8cm2V−1s−1 for 3. A concept test of the possible application of carbo-mers in self-assembled hole transporting monolayer (SA-HTM), with the view to replacing the most common p-type contact used in organic solar cells (OSCs), PEDOT:PSS, is also reported.
Volume
278
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Química orgánica
Nano-materiales
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85107116768
Source
Synthetic Metals
ISSN of the container
03796779
Sponsor(s)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) is acknowledged for funding. The authors thank the French-Mexican International Associated Laboratory (LIA) “Molecular Chemistry with Applications in Materials and Catalysis” funded by the CNRS and the CONACyT, and the ECOS Nord program M16P02 “Carbo-meric Chromophores for Two-Photon Absorption”, 2017–2020, and the CONACyT grant # 291434 “Absorción óptica no lineal en nuevos materiales orgánicos: el caso de cromóforos carbomeros” 2017–2021 for binational France-Mexico scientific collaboration. Authors also thank CONACyT grant “ Laboratorio Nacional de Materiales Grafénicos (LNMG)”. I. C.-Q. thanks UC MEXUS-CONACyT postdoctoral fellowship program 2020-2021. J. R.-T. thanks “ Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa (UNSA), Perú” for financial support through the grant # TD-004-2018-UNSA . Authors also thank to M. Olmos from GPOM-CIO (Mexico) for his technical assistance and M. Tassé from LCC-CNRS Toulouse (France) for AFM assistance. Thanks are due to Prof. Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, who has long inspired the design and study of the carbo-TTF molecule 3 .
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