Journal
ACS APPLIED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 755-760Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsaelm.1c01150
Keywords
conjugated polymer; poly(alkylthiophene); fluoroalkyl trichlorosilane; surface-doping; conductivity; carrier density; carrier mobility; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; semicrystalline structure
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Cultures, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan
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Surface-doping of fluoroalkyl trichlorosilane (FTS) on pi-conjugated polymer (P3HT) thin films using the vapor phase method was investigated. The effects of different amounts of FTS on the film's structural and electronic properties were evaluated. The results showed that FTS greatly enhanced the conductivity of the film, but also reduced the carrier mobility.
pi-Conjugated polymer (P3HT) thin films were surface-doped with fluoroalkyl trichlorosilane (FTS) by means of the vapor phase method. Semicrystalline structural changes as well as electronic properties, i.e., conductivity, carrier density, and carrier mobility, have been evaluated as a function of the amounts of FTS before and after surface-doping. The conductivity was quite enhanced by a factor of about 4 orders at the maximum, at which the carrier density was multiplied and the carrier mobility was reduced at the same time. It was found evidently that the increase in carrier density was due to the direct interaction between P3HT and FTS because of the electron transfer induced by the Lewis acidity of FTS. On the other hand, the decrease in carrier mobility was caused by disturbing and/or disordering the semicrystalline structure in P3HT during surface-doping of FTS.
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