Original research articleGamma radiation effect on physical properties of 2,9-Bis [2-(4-chlorophenyl)ethyl] anthrax [2,1,9-def:6,5,10-d′e′f′] diisoquinoline-1,3,8,10 (2H,9H) tetrone films
Introduction
The investigation of organic semiconductor materials in the recent years participates dramatically in the improvement of the performance of the optical and electronic device such as photovoltaic devices, light emitting diodes, field effect transistors, nonlinear optical material and gas sensing devices [[1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6]]. These materials which are realized with their ease treatment, and the ability to progress their structure with required electrical and optical properties, introduce widespread adoption in the application when compared with conventional inorganic semiconductors [7,8].
Among this group of materials, organic molecules with π-conjugated electron such as quinoline derivatives have created a new class of dyes materials that offer intensive particular applications in the field of organic light emitting diodes [9,10], information storage [11], and non-linear optical material [12], and optoelectronic devices [13]. Quinoline and its derivatives are characterized by their thermal stability, easy processing, and high photoluminescence quantum yield [14], which makes these dyes possible candidates for application in optical sensors or as optical probes.
Actually many, of literature were involved in studying the effect of gamma radiation on the quinoline and its derivatives in several fields of pollution, pharmaceutical chemistry, and biological effects. For example, the quinoline “which possess a higher solubility in water and thus resulting in the pollution of the groundwater” was realized by extreme degradation rate under the effect of gamma radiation [15]. On the other hand, quinoline and its derivatives were evaluated for their ability to enhance the cell killing effect of γ radiation [16]. In the biological field of studies, the complexes of 8-hydroxyquinoline with several gamma-emitting nuclides, have been used to label red blood cells, platelets, and leukocytes [17]. But according to our best knowledge, the investigation of γ-radiation effect on the optical properties of quinoline and its derivatives had not been reported yet.
Understanding of the optical properties of organic semiconductor thin films is essential in many scientific, technological and industrial applications of organic semiconductor thin films such as photo-conductivity, solar energy, photography, and other several applications. It is well known that the exposure of organic semiconductor materials to gamma rays induce structural defects [12], which lead to changes in its optical properties. These changes are relevant to the internal structure of the material, the radiation energy, and the irradiation dose. For instance, optical properties of nanocrystalline tin phthalocyanine (SnPc) thin films were studied under the effect of γ-radiation. It was found that the transmission edge of SnPc was shifted towards lower wavelength, and increase optical band gap as gamma radiation dose increases [18].
To discover a lot of information about the influence of gamma radiation on the optical properties of quinoline and its derivatives, 2,9-Bis [2-(4-chlorophenyl)ethyl] anthrax [2,1,9-def:6,5,10-d′e′f′] diisoquinoline-1,3,8,10 (2H,9H) tetrone (Ch-diisoQ) compound has been chosen in our scope of the study. In fact, the optical properties of Ch-diisoQ under the effect of different annealing temperatures, and the dependence of ac conductivity of Ch-diisoQ on temperature and frequency were surveyed in our previous works [19,20]. The appropriate activation energy and the convenient optical band gap confer this material the opportunity to be one of the potential candidate materials in the fabrication of photo-electronic materials and solar cells.
The comprehensive study of the optical properties of Ch-diisoQ can be completed by elucidating the effect of different doses of γ-radiation on the optical properties of such material, so the purpose of this work is to unveil the influence of gamma radiation on some of the optical parameters of Ch-diisoQ films.
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Experiment technique
The n-type organic compound Ch-diisoQ was purchased by Sigma-Aldrich Company. The schematic diagram of the molecular structure is shown in Fig. 1. At a pressure of 1.86 × 10−4Pa, the films of Ch-diisoQ on cleaned glass substrates with a thickness of 140 nm, were prepared by thermal evaporation technique using an HHV Auto 306 high vacuum coating unit which was described previously in our previous work [19,20]. Irradiation was performed by using a gamma cell type 60Co located at Jordan Atomic
Structural characterization
Fig. 2 illustrated XRD of as-deposited and gamma irradiated Ch-diisoQ thin films. As shown from this figure, XRD intensity of Ch-diisoQ thin films exhibits single peak located at 2θ = 13.30o with a hump of amorphity exists in the scale of 20°–40°, which means that Ch-diisoQ thin films belong to the crystalline structure. According to Scherrer’s equation, the grain size, D, was calculated by substituting XRD half-width in the following expression [22]where K is Scherrer's constant, λ
Conclusion
The influence of gamma radiation on the structural and optical properties of thermally evaporated of Ch-diisoQ films was investigated. X-Ray diffraction uncovered that Ch-diisoQ films have nanostructure nature and the grain size marginally increased with the rising of gamma radiation dosage. Several optical constants of Ch-diisoQ films were calculated as a function of gamma doses. The single oscillator model discussed the dispersion refractive index values in the normal dispersion region. The
Acknowledgments
Authors are grateful to Eng. M. Etoom, director of Department of Gamma Irradiation Center at Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC), for carrying out the radiation dosimetry measurements.
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2021, Optical MaterialsCitation Excerpt :Linear optical parameters of different quinoline derivatives include band structure, optical band gap, absorption coefficient, refractive index and absorption index are enormously studied [13–16]. Also, the irradiation effect on the non-linear optical parameters of some quinoline derivatives such as third order susceptibility and the non-linear refractive were studied [10,17]. Knowledge of all these parameters can develop their potential technological applications where quinoline derivatives are promising materials for optoelectronic devices [6,18–20] since their optical properties can be modulated by high energetic radiations [21–23].