20-21 November 2014
National Centre for Synchrotron Science
Australia/Melbourne timezone
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Near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure spectroscopy of naphthalene diimide-thiophene co-polymers

20 Nov 2014, 17:30
1h 30m
NCSS Exhibition Area ()

NCSS Exhibition Area

Australian Synchrotron 800 Blackburn Road Clayton VIC 3168
Board: 1102

Speaker

Dr Lars Thomsen (Australian Synchrotron)

Description

Near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure (NEXAFS) spectroscopy is an important tool for probing the structure of conjugated polymer films used in organic electronic devices. High-performance conjugated polymers are often donor-acceptor co-polymers which feature a repeat unit with multiple functional groups. To facilitate better application of NEXAFS spectroscopy to the study of such materials, improved understanding of the observed NEXAFS spectral features is required. In order to examine how the NEXAFS spectrum of a donor-acceptor co-polymer relates to the properties of the sub-units, a series of naphthalene diimide-thiophene-based co-polymers have been studied where the nature and length of the donor co-monomer has been systematically varied. The spectra of these materials are compared with that of a thiophene homopolymer and naphthalene diimide monomer enabling peak assignment and the influence of inter-unit electronic coupling to be assessed. We find that while it is possible to attribute peaks within the pi* manifold as arising primarily due to the naphthalene diimide or thiophene sub-units, very similar dichroism of these peaks is observed indicating that it may not be possible to separately probe the molecular orientation of the separate sub-units with carbon K-edge NEXAFS spectroscopy
Keywords or phrases (comma separated) NEXAFS, conjugated polymers, solar cells

Primary author

Dr Lars Thomsen (Australian Synchrotron)

Co-authors

Chris McNeill (Monash University) Eliot Gann (Australian Synchrotron)

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