The impact of local work function variations on Fermi level pinning of organic semiconductors

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 43, 2013, Pages 22285-22289

  Winkler, Stefanie ^a,b   Frisch, Johannes ^b   Schlesinger, Raphael ^b   Oehzelt, Martin ^a,b   Rieger, Ralph ^c   Räder, Joachim ^c   Rabe, Jürgen P ^b   Müllen, Klaus ^c   Koch, Norbert ^a,b  

^a HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC MODELING; FERMI LEVEL PINNING; HOLE INJECTION BARRIERS; HOLE TRANSPORT MATERIALS; LOCAL WORK FUNCTION; MOLECULAR ELECTRONS; SUBMONOLAYER COVERAGE; TETRACYANOQUINODIMETHANE;

DEPOSITION; FERMI LEVEL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; TIN OXIDES;

WORK FUNCTION;

EID: 84887147349     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp401919z     Document Type: Article

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