Band bending in conjugated polymer layers.
| Autor: | Lange I; Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany., Blakesley JC, Frisch J, Vollmer A, Koch N, Neher D |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2011 May 27; Vol. 106 (21), pp. 216402. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 May 25. |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.216402 |
| Abstrakt: | We use the Kelvin probe method to study the energy-level alignment of four conjugated polymers deposited on various electrodes. Band bending is observed in all polymers when the substrate work function exceeds critical values. Through modeling, we show that the band bending is explained by charge transfer from the electrodes into a small density of states that extends several hundred meV into the band gap. The energetic spread of these states is correlated with charge-carrier mobilities, suggesting that the same states also govern charge transport in the bulk of these polymers. (© 2011 American Physical Society) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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