The effect of oxygen exposure on pentacene electronic structure

We use ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy to investigate the effect of oxygen and air exposure on the electronic structure of pentacene single crystals and thin films. It is found that O₂ and water do not react noticeably with pentacene, whereas singlet oxygen/ozone readily oxidize the organic compound. Also, we obtain no evidence for considerable p-type doping of pentacene by O₂ at low pressure. However, oxygen exposure lowers the hole injection barrier at the interface between Au and pentacene by 0.25 eV, presumably due to a modification of the Au surface properties.     

混合溶剂对P3HT:PCBM基太阳能电池的影响

以poly(3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT)为电子给体材料,[6,6]-phenyl-C60-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM)为电子受体材料,制备了纯氯苯(CB)溶剂、纯氯仿(CF)溶剂和氯苯/氯仿(CB/CF)不同比例混合溶剂的共混体系太阳能电池.研究了不同溶剂及不同比例混合的混合溶剂对电池性能的影响.结果表明:以CB/CF(3/1)为溶剂制备的器件,紫外可见吸收光谱和器件外量子效率曲线显示出红移现象,原子力显微图表明P3HT和PCBM间形成良好的相分离结构.在100 mW/cm2强度光照射下,其开路电压Voc为0.61 V短路电流密度Jsc为9mA/cm2,填充因子FF为57.9％,能量转换效率PCE为3.2％.     

激子复合区厚度对有机磁效应的影响

在常规型有机发光二极管的基础上, 通过改变发光层tri-(8-hydroxyquinoline) aluminum (III) (Alq₃)厚度, 研究了激子复合区厚度对有机发光二极管磁效应的影响.测量了器件在不同温度及偏压下电致发光及注入电流在外加磁场作用下的变化, 着重研究了低温下的有机磁电导效应和有机磁电致发光效应.实验发现, 低温(50 K)高磁场 (500 mT)下, 器件表现出随Alq₃厚度的减薄, 磁电导值由正到负再到正的非单调变化.利用磁场调控的超精细相互作用、 磁场抑制的三重态激子-电荷反应以及激子在界面的淬灭效应, 对有机磁电导在低温下表现出的现象进行了定性的解释.实验结果表明, 通过改变激子复合区的厚度, 可以实现对激子浓度的有效调节, 进而实现对有机磁电导和磁电致发光效应的调节. 该研究进一步丰富了有机磁效应的实验现象, 同时提供了一种调控有机磁效应的手段. 关键词： 激子复合区 激子浓度 有机磁电导 有机磁电致发光     

Observation of sharp resistance anomalies near Tc in granular superconductors

Granular films prepared from well-defined In clusters embedded in Kr (? 10-40 at % Kr) show sharp resistance anomalies very close to the superconducting transition temperature. The observed resistance peak(s), which go(es) above the normal state resistance R_N and which can be as high as ? 1.5 R_N, can be explained by a “mesoscopic” effect: Superconducting percolation aggregates of size ξ_ρ, larger than the superconducting coherence length ξ_S, but smaller than the quasiparticle relaxation length λ_Q*, have a superconducting gap, but are not yet able to carry a supercurrent.     

柔性有机场效应晶体管研究进展

柔性有机场效应晶体管具有可折叠、质量轻、低成本等优点,在柔性显示、柔性传感器、柔性射频标签和柔性集成电路等方面显示了广阔的应用前景.本文在介绍柔性有机场效应 晶体管最新研究进展的基础上, 总结了柔性有机场效应晶体管的器件结构和柔性有机场效应晶体管所使用的衬底材料、 栅绝缘层材料、有源层材料及电极材料, 阐述了柔性有机场效应晶体管的制备工艺, 并讨论了不同的弯曲方式对柔性有机场效应晶体管性能的影响, 最后总结和展望了柔性有机场效应晶体管的应用领域. 关键词： 柔性 晶体管 有机/聚合物 溶液加工     

Transport and harvesting of suspended particles using modulated ultrasound

Polystyrene particles of 9 μm diameter were acoustically concentrated along the axis of a water-filled cylindrical waveguide containing a 3 MHz standing wave field. Modulation of the acoustic field enabled transport of the concentrated particles in the axial direction. Four modulations were investigated; 1, a fixed frequency difference introduced between two transducers; 2, ramping the transducer frequency; 3, tone burst, i.e. sound that is pulsed on and off, allowing intermittent sedimentation under gravity; and 4, switching the sound off to allow continuous sedimentation. The most efficient transport (leaving the fewest particles in suspension) of clumps to one end of the container was achieved with method 1 above. In this system the maximum speed of transport of the axial clumps was 24 mm s^-1. A theory developed here for the transport of particles in a pseudo (i.e. slowly moving) standing wave field predicts an upper limit, which increases with particle size, for the speed of an entrained body. For a single 9 μm diameter particle in a field with a spatial peak pressure amplitude of 0.4 MPa this speed would be 0.5 mm s^-1. The higher experimental speeds observed here emphasize the value of acoustically concentrating particles into relatively large clumps prior to initiating transport.     

Metal grid technologies for flexible transparent conductors in large-area optoelectronics

Mechanically flexible optoelectronic devices such as flexible displays, touch-screens, wearable electronics and solar cells are attracting significant commercial interest. In these devices, a transparent conductor is an essential element that delivers or collects the electrical current to the active material while it allows light to enter or exit from the device. The transparent conductor is composed of a transparent conductive film and a metallic grid providing electrical conduction over the large area. In this article, we review the established processes used by the industry as well as emerging solution-based methods for processing metal grids. Furthermore, we review the issues and potentials of these emerging processes facing for large-area deployment. In the final section, we evaluate three applications of flexible transparent conductors in: perovskite-based solar cells, organic light emitting diodes and electrochromic windows.     

Colloidal Analysis of Particles Extracted from Microalloyed Steels

Different colloidal particle characterization methods are examined for their suitability to determine the particle size distribution of particles extracted from steels. Microalloyed steels are dissolved to extract niobium and titanium carbonitride particles that are important for the mechanical properties of these steels. Such particles have sizes ranging from several nanometers to hundreds of nanometers depending on the precipitation stage during the thermomechanically controlled rolling process. The size distribution of the particles is analyzed by dynamic light scattering (DLS), analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC), and hollow fiber flow field-flow fractionation (HF5) and compared to data obtained for reference particles as well as data from electron microscopy, the standard sizing technique used in metallurgy today. AUC and HF5 provide high-quality size distributions, average over large particle numbers that enables statistical analysis, and yield useful insights for alloy design; however, DLS fails due to a lack of resolution. Important aspects in the conversion and comparison of size distributions obtained for broadly distributed particle systems with different measurement principles and the role of surfactants used in sample preparation are discussed.     

Overcoming the Inhibition Effects of Citrate: Precipitation of Ferromagnetic Magnetite Nanoparticles with Tunable Morphology,Magnetic Properties,and Surface Charge via Ferrous Citrate Oxidation

This study demonstrates how the method of thermally assisted oxidative precipitation in water can be opened for—the so far neglected—metal organic iron(II) complexes (herein: citrate) in order to obtain, in one step, ferromagnetic magnetite nanoparticles, possessing essential ligand properties. Based on a dedicated analysis of the specific precursor in combination with the consideration of known properties of the ligand, it is possible to identify existing inhibition-attributes of the iron organyl such that these can be overcome. Moreover, they can be exploited in a targeted manner; thus, simply by changing concentrations, a variety of magnetite nanoparticle morphologies with distinct properties can be obtained. In the case of the herein investigated ferrous citrate, three major inhibition effects are identified. While two of them efficiently prevent the formation of magnetite and need to be addressed to be overcome, the third can be exploited to selectively synthesize, for example, relatively stable carboxyl group-bearing nuclei clusters, exhibiting the properties of magnetically responsive photonic crystals, or relatively large mesocrystals, whose intraparticular magnetic interactions are apparently disturbed.     

Nonideal double-slope effect in organic field-effect transistors

With the development of device engineering and molecular design,organic field effect transistors(OFETs)with high mobility over 10 cm2 V-1-s-1 have been reported.However,the nonideal doubleslope effect has been frequently observed in some of these OFETs,which makes it difficult to extract the intrinsic mobility OFETs accurately,impeding the further application of them.In this review,the origin of the nonideal double-slope effect has been discussed thoroughly,with affecting factors such as contact resistance,charge trapping,disorder effects and coulombic interactions considered.According to these discussions and the understanding of the mechanism behind double-slope effect,several strategies have been proposed to realize ideal OFETs,such as doping,molecular engineering,charge trapping reduction,and contact engineering.After that,some novel devices based on the nonideal double-slope behaviors have been also introduced.