Changing band offsets in copper phthalocyanine to copolymer poly(vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene) heterojunctions

Authors

• Jie Xiao, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Andrei Sokolov, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• Peter A. Dowben, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

6-12-2007

Comments

Published in APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS 90, 242907 2007. © 2007 American Institute of Physics. Used by permission.

Abstract

The authors have fabricated a thin film copper phthalocyanine to crystalline ferroelectric copolymer poly(vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene) heterojunction diode. The formation of a diode is expected from the band offsets between the two thin film molecular systems, as ascertained from combined photoemission and inverse photoemission studies. From the temperature and field dependence of the heterojunction, dipole interactions are implicated at the interface between copper phthalocyanine and poly(vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene) and affect the band offsets and resultant diode properties.