Energy Level Alignment at the Organic Semiconductor Interface

Energy-level alignment at organic heterointerfaces

Today's champion organic (opto-)electronic devices comprise an ever-increasing number of different organic-semiconductor layers. The functionality of these complex heterostructures largely derives from the relative alignment of the frontier molecular-orbital energies in each layer with respect to those in all others. Despite the technological relevance of the energy-level alignment at organic h...

Organic semiconductor density of states controls the energy level alignment at electrode interfaces

Minimizing charge carrier injection barriers and extraction losses at interfaces between organic semiconductors and metallic electrodes is critical for optimizing the performance of organic (opto-) electronic devices. Here, we implement a detailed electrostatic model, capable of reproducing the alignment between the electrode Fermi energy and the transport states in the organic semiconductor bo...

Level alignment of gap state at organic-metal interface

Energy level alignment regimes at hybrid organic–organic and inorganic–organic interfaces

Ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy has been used to determine the energy level alignment at interfaces of molecular hole-transporting materials and various conductive substrates. Depending on the work function of the substrate, s, a transition between two different energy level alignment regimes has been observed: namely vacuum level alignment and Fermi level pinning. The transition is ass...

Energy-Level Alignment at Metal-Organic and Organic-Organic Interfaces in Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells

Ultra violet photoelectron spectroscopy measurements in combination with the Integer Charge Transfer model is used to obtain the energy level alignment diagrams for two common types of bulk heterojunction solar cell devices based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) or poly(2-methoxy-5-(3’,7’-dimethyloctyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene) as the donor polymer and (6,6)phenyl-C61-butric-acid as the acceptor mol...