COMPARISON OF THE PROPERTIES OF IODINE-DOPED POLY(N-VINYLCARBAZOLE) (PVK) THIN-FILMS OBTAINED BY EVAPORATION OF PURE POWDER FOLLOWED BY IODINE POSTDEPOSITION DOPING AND IODINE PRE-DOPED POWDER
S. Touihri et al., COMPARISON OF THE PROPERTIES OF IODINE-DOPED POLY(N-VINYLCARBAZOLE) (PVK) THIN-FILMS OBTAINED BY EVAPORATION OF PURE POWDER FOLLOWED BY IODINE POSTDEPOSITION DOPING AND IODINE PRE-DOPED POWDER, Thin solid films, 304(1-2), 1997, pp. 16-23
Poly( N-vinylcarbazole) (PVK) films have been deposited by the thermal
evaporation technique. The films were doped with iodine either by usi
ng a pre-doped powder or by post-doping of the layer. While there are
a lot of pinholes in the films obtained from iodine-doped PVK powder,
the morphology of the post-doped films is better, without any inhomoge
neities. Also, the iodine content is higher. By comparison to the refe
rence powder, the modifications of the properties of the PVK layers in
duced by iodine doping after deposition are related to the smallest ch
ain length. It is shown that polymerisation of the layer is induced by
iodine; this effect is improved by mild heating (T=370 K). (C) 1997 E
lsevier Science S.A.