Berlin 2015 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 10: Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (organized by DS)

TT 10.1: Vortrag

Montag, 16. März 2015, 09:30–09:45, H 2032

Metal-organic interfaces: from molecular self-assembly to electronic transport through ultrathin functional monolayers — •Florian von Wrochem — Sony Deutschland GmbH, Stuttgart

The continuous development of organic electronic devices, combined with the advances in spectroscopy and electrical characterization, dramatically extended our understanding of the physical and chemical processes occurring at metal/organic interfaces. Here, an overview of experimental and theoretical efforts aiming towards the selective modification of interfaces is given. Various anchor groups designed to connect organic materials to metal electrodes are presented (e.g. thiolates, dithiocarbamates, mercuryls and stannyls) and their potential for optimizing the charge injection as well as the morphological, chemical, and electronic nature at the contact is illustrated. On this basis, functional molecular building blocks are grafted to the surface by self-assembly, providing rectification, switching, or chemical selectivity. Once the key parameters for interface formation and fabrication are under control, a huge number of potential applications emerge, ranging from optoelectronics to organic printed circuits. As one example, electrostatic dipole layers for tuning the injection barrier between metals and organic semiconductors are presented, which may find applications in organic light emitting diodes, field effect transistors, and solar cells. When further reducing device dimensions towards the nanoscale, organic monolayers might foster the development of molecular electronics, as illustrated here by highly robust metal-molecule-metal junctions based on FeII-terpyridine molecular wires or by optically switchable protein layers.