TY - JOUR A1 - Hofmann, Alexander J. L. A1 - Züfle, Simon A1 - Shimizu, Kohei A1 - Schmid, Markus A1 - Wessels, Vivien A1 - Jäger, Lars A1 - Altazin, Stephane A1 - Ikegami, Keitaro A1 - Khan, Motiur Rahman A1 - Neher, Dieter A1 - Ishii, Hisao A1 - Ruhstaller, Beat A1 - Brütting, Wolfgang T1 - Dipolar Doping of Organic Semiconductors to Enhance Carrier Injection JF - Physical review applied N2 - If not oriented perfectly isotropically, the strong dipole moment of polar organic semiconductor materials such as tris-(8-hydroxyquinolate)aluminum (Alq3) will lead to the buildup of a giant surface potential (GSP) and thus to a macroscopic dielectric polarization of the organic film. Despite this having been a known fact for years, the implications of such high potentials within an organic layer stack have only been studied recently. In this work, the influence of the GSP on hole injection into organic layers is investigated. Therefore, we apply a concept called dipolar doping to devices consisting of the prototypical organic materials N,N′-Di(1-naphthyl)-N,N′-diphenyl-(1,1′-biphenyl)-4,4′-diamine (NPB) as nonpolar host and Alq3 as dipolar dopant with different mixing ratios to tune the GSP. The mixtures are investigated in single-layer monopolar devices as well as bilayer metal/insulator/semiconductor structures. Characterization is done electrically using current-voltage (I-V) characteristics, impedance spectroscopy, and charge extraction by linearly increasing voltage and time of flight, as well as with ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy. We find a maximum in device performance for moderate to low doping concentrations of the polar species in the host. The observed behavior can be described on the basis of the Schottky effect for image-force barrier lowering, if the changes in the interface dipole, the carrier mobility, and the GSP induced by dipolar doping are taken into account. KW - Carrier dynamics KW - Electric polarization KW - Optoelectronics KW - Organic electronics KW - Doped semiconductors KW - Interfaces KW - Organic LEDs KW - Organic semiconductors Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.064052 SN - 2331-7019 VL - 12 IS - 6 PB - American Physical Society CY - College Park ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidt, Anna A1 - Eckardt, Barbara A1 - Marszałek, Magdalena A1 - Görlich, Petra A1 - Bieber, Sabine A1 - Kampe, Heike A1 - Jäger, Sophie A1 - Horn-Conrad, Antje A1 - Günther, Oliver A1 - Seckler, Robert A1 - Seppä, Silvana A1 - Guske, Katja A1 - Szameitat, Ulrike A1 - Bezzenberger, Tilman A1 - Sütterlin, Sabine A1 - Weller, Nina A1 - Klauke, Lars T1 - Portal = Sommer an der Uni: Leere Hörsäle? Volle Terminkalender! BT - Das Potsdamer Universitätsmagazin N2 - Aus dem Inhalt: - Sommer an der Uni: Leere Hörsäle? Volle Terminkalender! - Stärken stärken - Unter Stress T3 - Portal: Das Potsdamer Universitätsmagazin - 03/2014 Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-443021 IS - 03/2014 ER -