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

Abstract

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 24, 2014
Accession Number
ADA594608

Entities

People

  • Luis Echegoyen

Organizations

  • University of Texas at El Paso

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Cells
  • Charge Transfer
  • Electrodes
  • Electron Transfer
  • Fullerenes
  • Measurement
  • Metal-Semiconductor Junctions
  • Monomolecular Films
  • Organic Solar Cells
  • Self Assembled Monolayers
  • Solar Cells
  • Solar Energy
  • Spectra
  • Spectrometers
  • Spectroscopy

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  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Solar Photovoltaics and Thermoelectric Devices.
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.