Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-17T13:57:17.789Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Investigation of Local Dynamics on the Sub-micron Scale in Organic Blends Using an Ultrafast Confocal Microscope

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Giulia Grancini ,
Dario Polli ,
Jenny Clark ,
Tersilla Virgili ,
Giulio Cerullo  and
Guglielmo Lanzani
Giulia Grancini
Affiliation:
[email protected], Politecnico di Milano, Physics, Milano, Italy
Dario Polli
Affiliation:
[email protected], Politecnico di Milano, Physics, Milano, Italy
Jenny Clark
Affiliation:
[email protected], Politecnico di Milano, Physics, Milano, Italy
Tersilla Virgili
Affiliation:
[email protected], IFN CNR Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Giulio Cerullo
Affiliation:
[email protected], Politecnico di Milano, Physics, Milano, Italy
Guglielmo Lanzani
Affiliation:
[email protected], CNST of IIT@POLIMI, Milano, Italy
Get access

Abstract

We introduce a novel instrument combining femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy and confocal microscopy for spatio-temporal imaging of excited-state dynamics of phase-separated polymer blends. Phenomena occurring at interfaces between different materials are crucial for optimizing the device performances, but are poorly understood due to the variety of possible electronic states and processes involved and to their complicated dynamics. Our instrument (with 200-fs temporal resolution and 300-nm spatial resolution) provides new insights into the properties of polymer blends, revealing spatially variable photo-relaxation paths and dynamics and highlighting a peculiar behaviour at the interface between the phase-separated domains.

Keywords

morphologyblendoptical properties
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1270: Symposia GG/HH/II – Organic Photovoltaics and Related Electronics-From Excitons to Devices , 2010 , 1270-HH01-03
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1 Lanzani, G., Cerullo, G., Polli, D., Gambetta, A., Zavelani-Rossi, M., Gadermaier, C., Phys. Stat. Sol. (a) 201, 1116 (2004).Google Scholar
2 Virgili, T., Marinotto, D., Manzoni, C., Cerullo, G. and Lanzani, G., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 117402 (2005).Google Scholar
3 Chappell, J. and Lidzey, D. G., J. Microsc. 209, 188–193 (2003).Google Scholar
4 Ohkita, H. et al., J.Am. Chem. Soc. 130, 3030 (2008).Google Scholar
5 Korovyanko, O. J., Oesterbacka, R., Jiang, X. M., Vardeny, Z. V., Phys. Rev. B 64, 235122 (2001).Google Scholar