TUNING THE ELECTRONIC, PHOTOPHYSICAL AND CHARGE TRANSFER PROPERTIES OF SMALL D-A MOLECULES BASED ON THIENOPYRAZINE-TERTHIENYLS BY CHANGING THE DONOR FRAGMENT: A DFT STUDY

ABSTRACT Four acceptor-donor organic conjugated molecules based on thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine-terthienyls were analyzed in order to explore the effect of the donor substituent on their molecular structures, electronic and optical properties. Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD/DFT) calculations were carried out employing the B3LYP hybrid functional in combination with the 6-31G(d,p) basis set. The results suggests that the addition of electron-donating substituents to the conjugated molecules can diminish their energy gap value, which is beneficial to the photon harvesting. The lowest-lying absorption spectra of compounds substituted with electron donor groups exhibited a red-shift and a high oscillation factor compared with the unsubstituted molecule. Additionally, the ionization potential (IP), electron affinity (EA), reorganization energy (λ) and open-circuit voltage (Voc) of the molecules were evaluated. According to these values, the molecules show good photovoltaic properties, and efficient charge transfer for hole and electron and balanced charges.

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Main Authors:	AICHA,YOUSSEF AIT, BOUZZINE,SI MOHAMED, ZAIR,TOURIYA, BOUACHRINE,MOHAMMED, HAMIDI,MOHAMED, SALGADO-MORÁN,GUILLERMO, TAGLE,R. RAMIREZ, MENDOZA-HUIZAR,LUIS H.
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedad Chilena de Química 2017
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-97072017000303637
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