Understanding the interface dipole of copper phthalocyanine (CuPc)/C 60: Theory and experiment

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 2173-2177

  Sai, Na ^a   Gearba, Raluca ^a   Dolocan, Andrei ^b   Tritsch, John R ^a   Chan, Wai Lun ^a   Chelikowsky, James R ^a   Leung, Kevin ^c   Zhu, Xiaoyang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; COPPER PHTHALOCYANINE; DONOR/ACCEPTOR INTERFACE; ELECTRONIC ENERGIES; ENERGY LEVEL ALIGNMENT; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; INTERFACE DIPOLE; INTERFACIAL MORPHOLOGIES; ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; THEORETICAL RESULT; TIME OF FLIGHT SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOF SIMS; ULTRAVIOLET PHOTOEMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

ALIGNMENT; CHARGE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84865076484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz300744r     Document Type: Article

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