Understanding energy-level alignment in donor-acceptor/metal interfaces from core-level shifts

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 6914-6920

  El Sayed, Afaf ^a   Borghetti, Patrizia ^b,c   Goiri, Elizabeth ^b   Rogero, Celia ^b,c   Floreano, Luca ^d   Lovat, Giacomo ^d   Mowbray, Duncan John ^a,b   Cabellos, Jose Luis ^a,b   Wakayama, Yutaka ^e   Rubio, Angel ^a,b,c   Ortega, Jose Enrique ^a,b,c   De Oteyza, Dimas G ^c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^c CENTRO MIXTO CSIC UPV EHU   (Spain)

^d LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

energy level alignment; Fermi level pinning; metal organic interfaces; molecular blends; vacuum level pinning; XPS

Indexed keywords

BINDING ENERGY SHIFTS; CHARGE INJECTION DEVICE; CORE-LEVEL PHOTOEMISSION; ENERGY-LEVEL ALIGNMENTS; FERMI LEVEL PINNING; METAL-ORGANIC INTERFACE; SYSTEMATIC EXPERIMENT; VACUUM-LEVEL PINNING;

BINDING ENERGY; CHARGE TRANSFER DEVICES; MOLECULES; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

METALS;

EID: 84883244678     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4020888     Document Type: Article

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