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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 82, Issue 1, Pages 70-72Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1532102
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Ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy is used to determine the energy level alignment at interfaces between three electroactive conjugated organic molecular materials, i.e., N,N'-bis-(1-naphthyl)-N,N'-diphenyl1-1,1-biphenyl1-4,4'-diamine; para-sexiphenyl; pentacene, and two high work function electrode materials, i.e., gold and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(styrenesulfonate). Although both electrode surfaces have a similar work function (similar to5 eV), the hole injection barrier and the interfacial dipole barrier are found to be significantly smaller for all the interfaces formed on the polymer as compared to the metal. This important and very general result is linked to one of the basic mechanisms that control molecular level alignment at interfaces with metals, i.e., the reduction of the electronic surface dipole contribution to the metal work function by adsorbed molecules. (C) 2003 American Institute of Physics.
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