Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
Volume 1, Issue 2, Pages 187-201Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2tc00001f
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Funding
- Australian Research Council Future Fellowship [FT100100275]
- VESKI Innovation Fellowship
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Science, Division of Materials Science and Engineering [DE-FG02-98ER45737]
- EPSRC [EP/G068356/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G068356/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Organic semiconductor devices such as organic solar cells and organic field-effect transistors are based on blended and/or multilayered structures. Many organic semiconductors used in high-performance devices are also semicrystalline or liquid crystalline with a complex relationship between film microstructure and device performance. Unravelling structure-function relationships in organic semiconductor devices therefore requires structural probes that have high chemical specificity, sensitivity to molecular orientation and order and high spatial resolution. Soft X-rays have proven to be versatile in spectroscopy, microspectroscopy and scattering experiments providing contrast derived from differences in the near-edge X-ray absorption spectra of different organic semiconductors. Furthermore, the sensitivity of polarised soft X-ray beams to the orientation of bonds in organic materials makes them a unique probe of molecular orientation. This feature article provides an overview of the range of microscopy, reflectivity and scattering techniques based on soft X-rays that have been developed in recent years and their utility for providing new insight into the complex structure of organic semiconductor thin films.
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