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- Dannetun, Per, et al.
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Reactions of low work function metals Na, Al, and Ca on α,ω-€diphenyltetradecaheptaene. Implications for metal/polymer interfaces
- 1994
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Ingår i: Journal of Chemical Physics. - : American Institute of Physics (AIP). - 0021-9606 .- 1089-7690. ; 100:9, s. 6765-6771
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The interactions between different low work function metals aluminium,calcium and sodium, and α,ω‐diphenyltetradecaheptaene, a model molecule for certain conjugated polymers, have been investigated using both x‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy. The spectra are interpreted with the help of the results of quantum chemical calculations performed within the local spin density (LSD) approximation methodology. The metals are found to interact with the conjugated system in very different ways. Aluminium forms a covalent bond, which strongly modifies the π‐electronic structure of the conjugated molecule, while both the sodium and the calcium atoms act as doping agents, inducing new states in the otherwise forbidden bandgap. These new gap states can be viewed as a soliton–antisoliton pair for the Na/DP7 and a bipolaronic‐like defect for Ca/DP7.
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- Fauquet, C., et al.
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Electronic structure of trimethylamine alane in the solid state
- 1995
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Ingår i: Chemical Physics Letters. - : Elsevier. - 0009-2614 .- 1873-4448. ; 235:5-6, s. 528-534
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chemical and electronic structure of ultrathin molecular films of trimethylamine alane (TMAA), condensed in UHV at − 100°C, have been studied in the solid state, using both X-ray and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy. The results are analyzed with the help of quantum chemical calculations at the ab initio Hartree-Fock 6-31G∗ level. Based upon the good agreement between theory and experimental, it is determined that clean, oxygen-free, condensed molecular solid films consist of the 2:1 adduct of TMAA, which was previously uncertain. In addition, based upon the electronic structure results, it is clear that the mechanism of the photodecomposition of TMAA can be explained in terms of the wavefunction of electrons photoexcited into the first unoccupied molecular orbital.
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- Lazzaroni, R., et al.
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Chemical and electronic aspects of metal/conjugated polymer interfaces : Implications for electronic devices
- 1995
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Ingår i: Synthetic metals. - : Elsevier. - 0379-6779 .- 1879-3290. ; 71:1-3, s. 2159-2162
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chemical nature and the electronic structure of metal/conjugated polymer interfaces are investigated in the context of polymer-based light-emitting diodes. We consider the interaction of low-workfunction metals (Al, Ca) with the surface of conjugated polymers or model oligomer molecules with a combined experimental and theoretical approach. The early stages of the interface formation are followed with X-ray and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopies and the experimental data are compared to the results of quantum chemical calculations. The reactions of Al and Ca with the organic surface are found to be fundamentally different: while the former forms new covalent bonds onto the polymer backbone, the latter tends to dope the conjugated system. Both types of reaction are expected to modify drastically the electronic properties of the polymer semiconductor.
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- Dannetun, Per, et al.
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Interface formation between poly(2,5-diheptyl-p-phenylenevinylene) and calcium : implications for light-emitting diodes
- 1994
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Ingår i: Synthetic metals. - : Elsevier. - 0379-6779 .- 1879-3290. ; 67:1-3, s. 133-136
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The early stages of metal/polymer interface formation between calcium and poly(2,5-diheptyl-p-phenylenevinylene) (PDHPV) have been studied using both X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy. Charge transfer is observed from the metal atoms to the polymer; as a result the calcium atoms at the interface are ionic, and negative bipolarons appear as the charge-carrying species on the polymer chains. This n-type doping of PDHPV by calcium leads to the appearance of new electronic states in the polymer bandgap. The calcium atoms appear to diffuse into the near surface region of the polymer, rather than forming a well-defined overlayer on the organic films.
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- Dannetun, Per, et al.
(författare)
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The evolution of charge-induced gap states in degenerate and non-degenerate conjugated molecules and polymers as studied by photoelectron spectroscopy
- 1994
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Ingår i: Synthetic metals. - : Elsevier. - 0379-6779 .- 1879-3290. ; 67:1, s. 81-86
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We report the results of ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) studies of the interaction between sodium and conjugated systems for a series of diphenylpolyees and diffrent oligomers of poly(p-phenylenevinylene) (PPV). The diphenylpolyenes include molecules containing two (i.e., stilbene) to 14 carbon atoms in the polyene part; stilbene itself can also be considered as a phenyl-capped monomer of PPV. Furthermore, a PPV oligomer with three phenylene units, as well as PPV itself, has been studied. The experimental results are interpreted with the help of quantum-chemical calculations using the Hartree-Fock semi-empirical Austin Model 1 (AM1) and valence-effective Hamiltonian (VEH) methods. An important result is that all the systems react strongly with sodium; at high doping levels two new doping-induced states are detected above the valence band edge of the pristine material. In the case of saturation-doped diphenylpolyenes (i.e., two sodiums per molecule), the new states can be discussed in terms of soliton-antisoliton pairs confined within the polyene part of the molecules; in contrast, the self-localized states induced in PPV and its oligomers have to be referred to as bipolarons.
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