Dynamic Exchange During Triplet Transport in Nanocrystalline TIPS-Pentacene Films.
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                  The multiplication of excitons in organic semiconductors via singlet fission offers the potential for photovoltaic cells that exceed the Shockley-Quiesser limit for single-junction devices. To fully utilize the potential of singlet fission sensitizers in devices, it is necessary to understand and control the diffusion of the resultant triplet excitons. In this work, a new processing method is reported to systematically tune the intermolecular order and crystalline structure in films of a model singlet fission chromophore, 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene (TIPS-Pn), without the need for chemical modifications. A combination of transient absorption spectroscopy and quantitative materials characterization enabled a detailed examination of the distance- and time-dependence of triplet exciton diffusion following singlet fission in these nanocrystalline TIPS-Pn films. Triplet-triplet annihilation rate constants were found to be representative of the weighted average of crystalline and amorphous phases in TIPS-Pn films comprising a mixture of phases. Adopting a diffusion model used to describe triplet-triplet annihilation, the triplet diffusion lengths for nanocrystalline and amorphous films of TIPS-Pn were estimated to be ∼75 and ∼14 nm, respectively. Importantly, the presence of even a small fraction (<10%) of the amorphous phase in the TIPS-Pn films greatly decreased the ultimate triplet diffusion length, suggesting that pure crystalline materials may be essential to efficiently harvest multiplied triplets even when singlet fission occurs on ultrafast time scales.  | 
        
| Year of Publication |    :  
                  2016 
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| Journal |    :  
                  Journal of the American Chemical Society 
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| Volume |    :  
                  138 
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| Issue |    :  
                  49 
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| Number of Pages |    :  
                  16069-16080 
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| Date Published |    :  
                  2016 
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| ISSN Number |    :  
                  0002-7863 
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| URL |    :  
                  https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b10010 
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| DOI |    :  
                  10.1021/jacs.6b10010 
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| Short Title |    :  
                  J Am Chem Soc 
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