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Interface Behaviour and Work Function Modification of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Sn-Doped In₂O₃

Hubmann, Andreas ; Dietz, Dominik ; Brötz, Joachim ; Klein, Andreas (2021)
Interface Behaviour and Work Function Modification of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Sn-Doped In₂O₃.
In: Surfaces, 2019, 2 (2)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00019795
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Interface Behaviour and Work Function Modification of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Sn-Doped In₂O₃
Language: English
Date: 2021
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2019
Publisher: MDPI
Journal or Publication Title: Surfaces
Volume of the journal: 2
Issue Number: 2
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00019795
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Origin: Secondary publication service
Abstract:

The modification of the work function of Sn-doped In₂O₃ (ITO) by vacuum adsorption of 4-(Dimethylamino)benzoic acid (4-DMABA) has been studied using in situ photoelectron spectroscopy. Adsorption of 4-DMABA is self-limited with an approximate thickness of a single monolayer. The lowest work function obtained is 2.82±0.1 eV, enabling electron injection into many organic materials. In order to identify a potential influence of the ITO substrate surface on the final work function, different ITO surface orientations and treatments have been applied. Despite the expected differences in substrate work function and chemical bonding of 4-DMABA to the substrate, no influence of substrate surface orientation is identified. The resulting work function of ITO/4-DMABA substrates can be described by a constant ionization potential of the adsorbed 4-DMABA of 5.00±0.08 eV, a constant band alignment between ITO and 4-DMABA and a varying Fermi energy in the ITO substrate. This corresponds to the behaviour of a conventional semiconductor heterostructure and deviates from the vacuum level alignment of interfaces between organic compounds. The difference is likely related to a stronger chemical bonding at the ITO/4-DMABA interface compared to the van der Waals bonding at interfaces between organic compounds.

Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-197957
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Keywords: ITO; work function; self-assembled monolayer; band alignment

Classification DDC: 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering and machine engineering
Divisions: 11 Department of Materials and Earth Sciences > Material Science > Electronic Structure of Materials (ESM)
11 Department of Materials and Earth Sciences > Material Science > Structure Research
Date Deposited: 29 Oct 2021 12:22
Last Modified: 14 Aug 2023 09:48
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/19795
PPN: 495611409
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