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The Role of the n pi* (1)A(u) State in the Photoabsorption and Relaxation of Pyrazine
(2011-11-04)
Lin, Chih-Kai
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Niu, Yingli
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Zhu, Chaoyuan
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Shuai, Zhigang
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Lin, Sheng Hsien
The geometric, energetic, and spectroscopic properties of the ground state and the lowest four singlet excited states of pyrazine have been studied by using DFT/TD-DFT, CASSCF, CASPT2, and related quantum chemical calculations. The second singlet n pi* state, (1)A(u), which is conventionally regarded dark due to the dipole-forbidden (1)A(u) <- (1)A(g) transition, has been investigated in detail. Our new simulation has shown that the state could be visible in the absorption spectrum by intensity borrowing from neighboring n pi* (1)B(3u) and pi pi* (1)B(2u) states through vibronic coupling. The scans on potential-energy surfaces further indicated that the (1)A(u) state intersects with the (1)B(2u) states near the equilibrium of the latter, thus implying its participation in the ultrafast relaxation process.
Theoretical design of polythienylenevinylene derivatives for improvements of light-emitting and photovoltaic performances
(2012)
Jiang, Yuqian
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Peng, Qian
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Gao, Xing
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Shuai, Zhigang
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Niu, Yingli
Poly(thienylene vinylene) (PTV) is a low-bandgap polymer but shows poor performance in both light-emitting and photovoltaic applications. Recently a derivative of PTV with carboxylate substitution, poly(3-carboxylated thienylenevinylene) (P3CTV), has been synthesized and was shown to be fluorescent. The photovoltaic power conversion efficiency based on P3CTV has been found to be much larger than PTV, indicating an intrinsically concomitant relationship between light-emitting and photovoltaic properties. Employing quantum chemistry calculations coupled with our correlation function formalism for excited state decay and optical spectra, we have investigated a series of side-chain substituted PTVs targeting optimal optoelectronic performance. We predict that the carbonyl substituted PTV is a strongly fluorescent polymer with low bandgap, long exciton lifetime, and large spectral overlap between emission and absorption. It is expected that carbonyl PTV is a promising light-emitting and photovoltaic polymer. Methodology wise, we find that (i) our correlation function approach to calculate the optical spectrum has much lower computational scaling with respect to the system size than the conventional method; (ii) the harmonic oscillator approximation for the nonadiabatic decay works better for a large system than for a small system.