Inorganic/Organic Interfaces: Optimizing Charge Transfer for
Electronic Applications
NSF Proposal
Describes the motivation for this work, the general research plan,
typical systems for initial studies, and techniques that we intend to
use.
Dana Olson's Thesis
Work done at NREL in collaboration with Sean Shaheen and Dave
Ginley. This project provided major motivation for our writing
the proposal.
D. C. Olson, J. Piris, R. T. Collins, S. E.
Shaheen, and D. S. Ginley,
"Hybrid Photovoltaic Devices of Polymer and Zno Nanofiber Composites,"
Thin Solid Films 496, 26 (2006).
Selected Journal Articles
Many were cited in the proposal.
B. A. Gregg,
"The Photoconversion Mechanism of Excitonic Solar Cells,"
MRS Bulletin 30, 20 (2005).
S. R. Forrest,
"The Limits to Organic Photovoltaic Cell Efficiency,"
MRS Bulletin 30, 28 (2005).
H. Ishii, K. Sugiyama, E. Ito, and K. Seki,
"Energy Level Alignment and Interfacial Electronic Structures at
Organic/Metal and Organic/Organic Interfaces,"
Adv. Mater. 11, 605-625 (1999).
D. Cahen and A. Kahn,
"Electron Energetics at Surfaces and Interfaces: Concepts and
Experiments,"
Adv. Mater. 15, 271 (2003).
W. J. E. Beek, M. M. Wienk, and R. A. J. Janssen,
"Hybrid Polymer Solar Cells Based on Zinc Oxide,"
J. Mater. Chem. 15,
2985-2988 (2005).
W. J. E. Beek, M. M. Wienk, M. Kemerink, X. N.
Yang, and R. A. J. Janssen,
"Hybrid Zinc Oxide Conjugated Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar
Cells,"
J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 9505-9516 (2005).
J. T. Sullivan, K. E. Harrison, J. P.
Mizzell, III, and S. M. Kilbey, II,
"Contact Angle and Electrochemical Characterization of
Multicomponent
Thiophene-Capped Monolayers,"
Langmuir 16, 9797-9803 (2000).
I. H. Campbell, S. Rubin, T. A. Zawodzinski,
J. D. Kress, R. L. Martin, D. L. Smith, N. N. Baraskkov, and J. P.
Ferraris,
"Controlling Schottky Energy Barriers in Organic Electronic Devices
Using Self-Assembled Monolayers,"
Phys. Rev. B 54, 14321-14324 (1996).
N. Asakuma, T. Fukui, M. Toki, K. Awazu, and
H. Imai,
"Photoinduced Hydroxylation at ZnO Surface,"
Thin Solid Films 445, 284-287 (2003).
L. Zuppiroli, L. Si-Ahmed, K. Kamaras, F.
Nuesch, M. N. Bussac, D. Ades, A. Siove, E. Moons, and M. Gratzel,
"Self-Assembled Monolayers as Interfaces for Organic
Opto-Electronic
Devices,"
Euro. Phys. J. B 11, 12 (1999).
N. R. Armstrong, C. Carter, C. Donley, A.
Simmonds, P. Lee, M. Brumbach, B. Kippelen, B. Domercq, and S. Yoo,
"Interface Modification of Ito Thin Films: Organic Photovoltaic
Cells,"
Thin Solid Films 445, 342-352 (2003).
N. Koch, G. Heimel, J. Wu, E. Zojer, R. L.
Johnson, J.-L. Bredas, K. Mullen, and J. P. Rabe,
"Influence of Molecular Conformation on Organic/Metal Interface
Energetics,"
Chem. Phys. Lett. 413, 390-395 (2005).
K. D. Dobson and A. J. McQuillan,
"In Situ Infrared Spectroscopic Analysis of the Adsorption of
Aromatic
Carboxylic Acids to TiO_2, ZrO_2, Al_2O_3, and Ta_2O_5 from Aqueous
Solutions,"
Spectrochim. Acta, Part A 56, 557-565 (2000).
A. N. Parikh and D. L. Allara,
"Quantitative Determination of Molecular Structure in Multilayered
Thin
Films of Biaxial and Lower Symmetry from Photon Spectroscopies. I.
Reflection Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopy,"
J. Chem. Phys. 96, 927-945 (1992).
U. Ozgur, Y. I. Alivov, C. Liu, A. Teke, M. A. Reshchikov, S. Dogan, V.
Avrutin, S. J. Cho, and H. Morkoc,
"A Comprehensive Review of Zno Materials and Devices,"
J. Appl. Phys. 98, 41301 (2005).