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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
Volume 48, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
JAPAN SOCIETY APPLIED PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1143/JJAP.48.021601
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- Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST)
- Ministry of Education, Science & Technology (MoST), Republic of Korea [09NB02] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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We report on the effects of surface treatment with N(2), O(2), and N(2)O plasmas on the work function of indium-tin oxide (ITO). UV photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) showed that the work function on the ITO surface treated with N(2)O plasma increased more than that on the samples treated with N(2) or O(2) plasma. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) showed that the intensity of the O-O bonding peak at 532.3eV markedly increased owing to the adsorption of O(-) ions on the ITO surface from breaking bonds in N(2)O gas by the plasma. The dipole layer formed by O(-) ions on the ITO surface increases the work function of ITO. Accordingly, N(2)O plasma treatment leads to a reduction of the potential barrier between the Fermi level of ITO and the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level of an organic layer when ITO is used as an anode for organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs) and related devices. Therefore, N(2)O plasma treatment enhances the hole-injection properties from the ITO thin film to the organic layer. (C) 2009 The Japan Society of Applied Physics
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