Ultrafast exciton and charge carrier dynamics in nanostructured molecular layers

Due to their unique properties organic semiconductors may be used for various applications in organic optoelectronic devices: light emitting devices, lasers, field-effect transistors and photovoltaic cells and etc. Despite high perspectives of organic semiconductors they are still upstaged by their inorganic counterpart. The efficiency of electrooptical properties of organic semiconductors is tried to increase. The main goal of this thesis is a detailed investigation of ultrafast exciton and charge carrier processes in pure organic semiconductors and their blends with fullerene derivatives. Measured organic or silicon organic semiconductors were poly-di-n-hexylsilane (PDHS), polyfluorenes F8BT and PSF-BT, merocyanine MD376. Fullerenes used in blends were C60 and its derivative PCBM. Ultrafast transient absorption, fluorescence, and integral mode photocurrent measurements were used for investigations. The investigation of PDHS revealed that PDHS nanocomposites can be used for improvement of neat PDHS films fluorescence properties. The formation of intramolecular charge transfer state was proposed for PSF-BT neat films. Charge transfer scheme of the formation of long-lived charge pair state in PSF-BT/PCBM blend was presented. The formation of charge transfer states was explored in neat merocyanine films and blends with fullerene derivatives. The scheme of generation of charge pairs and free charge carriers in merocyanine blends with fullerene derivatives was discussed in detail. Analysis of measurements showed the influence of fullerene derivatives concentration, sample preparation technology and nanostructures packed with molecules to electrooptical properties of organic semiconductors