Exciton diffusion and charge-carrier generation in two-layer organic photoreceptors with azo and phthalocyanine sensitizer

Andreas Schreiber; Roland Bilke; Junyou Pan; Ingo Bleyl; Jens Bondkowski; Dieter Adam; Dietrich Haarer

doi:10.1117/12.328163

23 October 1998 Exciton diffusion and charge-carrier generation in two-layer organic photoreceptors with azo and phthalocyanine sensitizer

Andreas Schreiber, Roland Bilke, Junyou Pan, Ingo Bleyl, Jens Bondkowski, Dieter Adam, Dietrich Haarer

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Proceedings Volume 3471, Xerographic Photoreceptors and Organic Photorefractive Materials IV; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.328163
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Two-layer organic photoreceptors consisting of a dye sensitizer acting as the charge generation layer (CGL) and a hole transport layer (HTL) have been investigated by steady- state photoconduction measurements and time-of-flight experiments. With these techniques effects of exciton diffusion, charge-carrier generation, charge injection and charge transport can be studied. The measurements were carried out with (i) single generation layers consisting of azo-pigment dispersion and titanylphthalocyanine pigment dispersion and (ii) with two-layered photoreceptors using azo and TiOPc as charge generation layer and TDAPB and hexa(hexylthio)triphenylene (HHTT) as charge transport materials. We found that in the Phthalocyanine/HTL-system the efficiency for charge injection into the HTL is transport-limited due to the hole mobility of the Titanylphthalocyanine dispersion, whereas the efficiency in the azo/HTL receptor is limited by the diffusion of excitons and (or) holes towards the CGL/HTL-interface. We draw to the conclusion that illumination of the Phthalocyanine sensitizer leads to the formation of charge-transfer excitons which subsequently dissociate into free charges. In contrast to this, the azo-pigment as a sensitizer seems to form strongly bound excitons. Hence no dissociation in free charge-carriers occurs except on the CGL/HTL-interface where the hole transport molecules act as electron donors. From steady-state photocurrent measurements we calculate diffusion lengths belonging to the diffusion of excitons and monitory charge-carriers respectively.

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Andreas Schreiber, Roland Bilke, Junyou Pan, Ingo Bleyl, Jens Bondkowski, Dieter Adam, and Dietrich Haarer "Exciton diffusion and charge-carrier generation in two-layer organic photoreceptors with azo and phthalocyanine sensitizer", Proc. SPIE 3471, Xerographic Photoreceptors and Organic Photorefractive Materials IV, (23 October 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.328163

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