Energy-Level Alignment of a Hole-Transport Organic Layer and ITO: Toward Applications for Organic Electronic Devices

Quentin Arnoux; Anthony Boucly; Vincent Barth; Rabah Benbalagh; Albano Cossaro; Luca Floreano; Mathieu Silly; Fausto Sirotti; Etienne Derat; Stéphane Carniato; Fabrice Bournel; Jean Jacques Gallet; Denis Fichou; Ludovic Tortech; François Rochet

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Energy-Level Alignment of a Hole-Transport Organic Layer and ITO: Toward Applications for Organic Electronic Devices

Quentin Arnoux, Anthony Boucly, Vincent Barth, Rabah Benbalagh, Albano Cossaro, Luca Floreano, Mathieu Silly, Fausto Sirotti, Etienne Derat, Stéphane Carniato, Fabrice Bournel, Jean Jacques Gallet, Denis Fichou, Ludovic Tortech, François Rochet

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Abstract

2,2′,6,6′-Tetraphenyl-4,4′-dipyranylidene (DIPO-Ph₄) was grown by vacuum deposition on an indium tin oxide (ITO) substrate. The films were characterized by atomic force microscopy as well as synchrotron radiation UV and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to gain an insight into the material growth and to better understand the electronic properties of the ITO/DIPO-Ph₄ interface. To interpret our spectroscopic data, we consider the formation of cationic DIPO-Ph₄ at the ITO interface owing to a charge transfer from the organic layer to the substrate. Ionization energy DFT calculations of the neutral and cationic species substantiate this hypothesis. Finally, we present the energetic diagram of the ITO/DIPO-Ph₄ system, and we discuss the application of this interface in various technologically relevant systems, as a hole-injector in OLEDs or as a hole-collector interfacial layer adjacent to the prototypical OPV layer P3HT:PCBM.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	30992-31004
Number of pages	13
Journal	ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Volume	9
Issue number	36
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b06691
Publication status	Published - 13 Sept 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

charge transfer
hole-transport layer
interfacial layer
metal/organic interface
organic solar cells
photoemission spectroscopy

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Arnoux, Q., Boucly, A., Barth, V., Benbalagh, R., Cossaro, A., Floreano, L., Silly, M., Sirotti, F., Derat, E., Carniato, S., Bournel, F., Gallet, J. J., Fichou, D., Tortech, L., & Rochet, F. (2017). Energy-Level Alignment of a Hole-Transport Organic Layer and ITO: Toward Applications for Organic Electronic Devices. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9(36), 30992-31004. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b06691

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Energy-Level Alignment of a Hole-Transport Organic Layer and ITO: Toward Applications for Organic Electronic Devices

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