Influence of Molecular Stacking Pattern on Excited State Dynamics of Copper Phthalocyanine Films

Photophysical processes occurring within organic semiconductors is important for designing and fab-ricating organic solar cells.Copper phthalocya-nine(CuPc)is a typical electron acceptor.In this work,the triplet exciton lifetime is prolonged by al-tering the molecular stacking pattern of the CuPc film.For CuPc thin films,the excited state de-cays are mainly determined by the triplet-triplet an-nihilation process.The ultrafast transient absorp-tion measurements indicate that the primary anni-hilation mechanism is one-dimensional exciton diffu-sion collision destruction.The decay kinetics show a clearly time-dependent annihilation rate constant with γ∝t-1/2.Annihilation rate constants are deter-mined to be γ0=(2.87±0.02)×10-20 cm3·s-1/2 and(1.42±0.02)×10-20 cm3·s-1/2 for upright and lying-down configurations,respectively.Compared to the CuPc thin film with an upright configuration,the thin film with a lying-down configuration shows longer exciton lifetime and higher absorbance,which are beneficial to organic solar cells.The results in this work have important implications on the design and mechanistic understanding of organic optoelectronic devices.