Required Equipment for Photo-Switchable Donor-Acceptor (D-A) Dyad Interfacial Self-Assembled Monolayers for Organic Photovoltaic Cells.

摘要

Seven major instruments were purchased: (1) A DXR Smart Raman spectrometer, (2) A Bruker Tensor 27 FT Infrared Spectrometer, (3) An Alpha-Step D-120 Profilometer from KLA Tencor Corp., (4) A Rame-Hart model 250 Goniometer/Tensiometer, (5) an Agilent Diffuse Reflectance Accessory, (6) a Jelight Co. UVO cleaner, and (7) a Laurell Technologies Spin Coater. These instruments were used to characterize a variety of photoswitchable Donor-Acceptor (DA) dyads that were designed, synthesized, and evaluated as Interfacial Layers (ILs) in Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) devices and in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs). Proof of the original proposal concept, photoswitched ILs, was unambiguously established.