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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten

DS 26: Frontiers in Electronic-Structure Theory - Focus on Electron-Phonon Interactions IV (joint session O/CPP/DS/HL)

DS 26.5: Talk

Wednesday, March 18, 2020, 16:15–16:30, GER 38

Ambivalent Impact of Electron-Phonon Interaction on Electronic and Transport Properties of Organic Semiconductors — •Frank Ortmann — Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Vibrations are omnipresent in molecules and of great importance in Organic Semiconductors due to the softness of the materials and the strong electron-phonon coupling. One possibility to investigate this interaction is to study the low-energy edge of optical absorption spectra, which lacks an in-depth understanding for organic materials. We have recently observed a strong dependence of low-energy excitonic features on the molecular building blocks in organic films, which we associated to molecular flexibility and polaron deformation. We will discuss implications of low-frequency molecular vibrations on the polaronic and excitonic density of states in donor-acceptor mixtures featuring charge-transfer excitons. We will also discuss how a distinguished treatment of strong-coupling molecular vibrations of different energies leads to an improved description of charge carrier transport in organic materials.