Issue 5, 2023

Polymorph- and molecular alignment-dependent lasing behaviors of a cyano-substituted thiophene/phenylene co-oligomer

Abstract

Four types of crystals with different molecular orientations and crystal morphologies (green platelet, yellow platelet, yellow fiber, and orange disk) consisting of 5,5′-bis(4′-cyanobiphenyl-4-yl)-2,2′-bithiophene (BP2T-CN), a type of thiophene/phenylene co-oligomer (TPCO), were obtained by changing the crystal preparation method. Each crystal exhibited high photoluminescence quantum efficiency values of 61–85%. For green- and yellow-emitting (platelet and fiber) crystals, lasing was observed from the crystal end facets acting as Fabry–Pérot (F–P) resonators. Strong exciton–photon coupling was demonstrated by energy-wavevector dispersion plots obtained from the energies of each interference peak in the mode structure of the F–P resonator. Moreover, a low lasing threshold of 17 μJ cm−2 was achieved in the case of yellow-emitting fiber-like crystals, owing to the high absorption efficiency resulting from the lying-down molecular orientation in the crystal. For the orange-emitting crystal, whispering-gallery mode lasing was observed above 156 μJ cm−2. This higher threshold resulted from the low absorption efficiency that is attributable to the 50° angle (slip angle) formed between the transition dipole moment and crystal basal plane ((100) plane). The crystal structure- and molecular alignment-dependent optical properties can be obtained by controlling the molecular packing and magnitude of intermolecular interactions.

Graphical abstract: Polymorph- and molecular alignment-dependent lasing behaviors of a cyano-substituted thiophene/phenylene co-oligomer

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
30 Sep 2022
Accepted
21 Dec 2022
First published
17 Jan 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023,11, 1714-1725

Polymorph- and molecular alignment-dependent lasing behaviors of a cyano-substituted thiophene/phenylene co-oligomer

T. Jinjyo, H. Mizuno, F. Sasaki and H. Yanagi, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2023, 11, 1714 DOI: 10.1039/D2TC04151K

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