Caracterização fotofísica de compostos orgânicos para aplicação em dispositivos optoeletrônicos

Abstract

In the present work we investigated experimentally and theoretically the photophysical characterization of organic compounds of the type benzothiazoles, targeting applications in optoelectronic devices, mainly in organic light emitting diodes and photoelectric devices. The study was developed to identify the optical and structural properties of the compounds and the effect of the addition of an amine radical on the ring PhO (benzene-bound benzene) of the benzothiazole compound. Other variations were analyzed, such as changes in the positions of the amine radical added to said compound and absence of the hydroxyl radical. Absorption and photoluminescence experiments were carried out with the purpose of verifying the excitation and fluorescence energies of the compounds, as well as Stokes displacement. The photophysical characterization was also investigated theoretically by means of an ab initio or first principles computational model based on the Density Functional Theory (DFT), implemented in the Gaussian® program, which uses quantum mechanics to calculate the molecular structures and their vibrational properties. We investigated the molecular geometric structure, obtaining the interatomic distances, structure of electronic orbitals, diagrams of energy bands, molecular vibrations and frequency of vibrational modes. By means of Raman spectroscopy, the frequencies of the active Raman vibrational modes were obtained, allowing the comparison with the theoretical results of the simulations. The compounds 4HBS, 4HBSN and 5HBS have their first theoretical characterization from the study of this dissertation.