Application of phthalocyanine thin films in optical recording

Electrical properties and dielectric relaxation of thermally evaporated zinc phthalocyanine thin films

“…In the past three decades, phthalocyanine (Pc) compounds have attracted much attention because they have enormous potential for applications, such as semi conducting devices [1,2], photovoltaic and solar cell [3,4], gas sensors [5,6], and optical recording [7]. Pcs are interesting groups of compounds because their structure corresponds to porphyrine of which chlorophyll is a member and they have chemical and photochemical stability [8,9].…”

Optical properties of thermally evaporated tin-phthalocyanine dichloride thin films, SnPcCl2

“…Phthalocyanines as a class of organic materials are generally thermally stable and can easily be deposited as thin films with high quality by thermal evaporation without dissociation. Metal phthalocyanines (MPc's) have gained considerable attention in recent years because they have been successfully applied in many applications such as dyes, pigments, photocopying agents [1], gas sensors [2,3], solar cells [4][5][6] and light emitting diodes [7,8]. Optical absorption studies of MPc's thin films have attracted the researchers over the last decade [9][10][11][12][13][14][15].…”

Synthesis, characterization and photophysical properties of novel tetrasubstituted phthalocyaninato zinc derivatives

“…In the past several decades, metal phthalocyanine (MPc) compounds have attracted much attention because they have enormous potential for applications, such as semiconducting devices [1,2], photovoltaic and solar cell [3,4], gas sensors [5,6] and optical recording [7]. In this regard, MPcs show a propensity to aggregate through coplanar association of the Pc rings in solution to form dimer and higher oligomeric species owing to the extended p system [8,9], which have attracted considerable interest for their potential application in optoelectronic technologies such as excitation-energy transfer, charge separation, hole-transfer reactions, photosynthetic light-harvesting antenna, etc.…”