Electron Depletion And Accumulation Regions In N-Type Copper-Hexadecafluoro-Phthalocyanine And Their Effects On Electronic Properties

We investigated interfacial electronic structures of organic/inorganic heterojunctions formed between copper-hexadecafluoro-phthalocyanine (F16CuPc) and molybdenum trioxide or lead monoxide by ultraviolet and x-ray photoemission spectroscopies. Obvious energy level bending in F16CuPc shows the formation of electron depletion and accumulation regions in its contact with molybdenum and lead oxides, respectively. Effects of these depletion/accumulation zones were studied via electronic characteristics of field-effect transistors constructed with these heterojunctions as active layers. Finally, a summary about the heterojunction including organic semiconductor (n-type and p-type) and metal oxide was given, which demonstrated that organic semiconductors can form various space charge regions like conventional inorganic semiconductors. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3691257]