title: Laser spectroscopy of functional materials
creator: Schmitt, Tanja
subject: ddc-500
subject: 500 Natural sciences and mathematics
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
subject: ddc-540
subject: 540 Chemistry and allied sciences
description: In a world of increasing energy consumption and man-made global warming, the knowledge of electronic and structural properties of organic materials is crucial for their implementation and use in innovative (smart) devices since those determine device performance. Herein, the electronic and structural properties of new promising materials are studied in detail utilising advanced laser spectroscopic techniques.  Considering optoelectronic devices such as organic field effect transistors and solar cells, the metal/organic interface plays an important role for device performance. Therefore, the electronic properties of an n-type semiconducting N-substituted pentacene derivative and its change at higher layer thicknesses in contact with a metal electrode is studied via two-photon photoemission spectroscopy as well as the adsorption and desorption properties via temperature-programmed desorption. Several molecular electronic states such as the highest occupied and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital as well as the optical gap are thereby determined quantitatively.  Developing optoelectronic devices further, smart devices covering more complex needs can be achieved by implementing multiresponsive mixtures reacting in differentiated ways to light, which acts as sustainable external stimulus with high spatio-temporal resolution. Hence, the switching behaviour of a mixture of two individually as well as simultaneously addressable photoswitches is researched in detail. Furthermore, the investigated mixture is 3D printable allowing fast and easy implementation in 3D structures. The photoswitches are a push-pull azobenzene derivative and a first generation donor-acceptor Stenhouse adduct absorbing longer wavelengths in the visible region of the spectrum compared to the azobenzene derivative. All steps of the trans-to-cis isomerisation of the former and the linear-to-closed isomerisation of the latter photoresponsive molecule are studied as well as the respective back reactions with special emphasis on the environmental influence and the impact of the photoswitches on each other. Therefore, several techniques, such as femtosecond transient absorption, temperature dependent kinetic visible absorption and kinetic infrared absorption spectroscopy, are used to gain a full picture. Dynamic effects of the environment and the photoswitches on each other are thereby found such that individual switching of both molecules takes place with minor impacts on each other in the mixture.  Other 3D printable materials are diblock copolymers exhibiting microphase separation such as a derivative of a standard diblock copolymer for high-resolution nanolithography with additional functional groups allowing 3D printing. The lamellar structure and its regularity is studied by means of a scattering-scanning near-field optical microscope before and after 3D printing upon which a polymeric network is formed. Before printing, lamellae are thereby found whereas the printing process needs to be optimised to maintain this structure after 3D printing.
date: 2023
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/33031/1/Dissertation%20Tanja%20Schmitt.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00033031
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-330319
identifier:   Schmitt, Tanja  (2023) Laser spectroscopy of functional materials.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/33031/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng