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Weigang Zhu1,2, Yajing Sun3, Jie Liu1,2
1Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science (ICCAS), Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Beijing, 100190, P.R. China.
Abstract:
Organic semiconductors with long-range exciton diffusion length are highly desirable for optoelectronics but currently remain rare. Here, the estimated diffusion length of singlet excitons (LD ) in 2,6-diphenyl anthracene (DPA) crystals grown by solvent evaporation was shown to be up to approximately 124 nm. These crystals showed a previously unseen parallelogram morphology with layer-by-layer edge-on molecular stacking, isotropic optical waveguiding, radiation rate and non-radiation rate constants of 0.15 and 0.26 ns-1 respectively, as well as good field-effect transistor hole mobility and theoretically computed strong electronic couplings as high as 109 meV. Photoresponse experiments revealed that the photoconductivity of DPA crystals is surprisingly not related to the radiative pathway but associated with rapid exciton diffusion to the crystal surface for charge separation and carrier bimolecular recombination. Taken together, DPA was shown to be a promising semiconducting material for a new organic optoelectronics paradigm.
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