Highly ordered vacuum-deposited thin films of copper phthalocyanine induced by electric field

Citation
Wp. Hu et al., Highly ordered vacuum-deposited thin films of copper phthalocyanine induced by electric field, THIN SOL FI, 347(1-2), 1999, pp. 299-301
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Material Science & Engineering
Journal title
THIN SOLID FILMS
ISSN journal
00406090 → ACNP
Volume
347
Issue
1-2
Year of publication
1999
Pages
299 - 301
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-6090(19990622)347:1-2<299:HOVTFO>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
The properties of copper-phthalocyanine (CuPc) thin films vacuum evaporated on glass substrates under different electric fields have been investigated . The resistances of the film decrease rapidly with increasing electric fie lds. The results of AFMs, XPS and X-ray diffraction reveal that electric fi elds change the chemical environment of Cu and increase the order of copper phthalocyanine molecules. A possible mechanism of this phenomenon is discu ssed in this paper. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.