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1 Online-Ressource (27 Seiten)
ISSN:
1616-3028
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1616-3028
Content:
The functionality of interfaces in hybrid inorganic/organic (opto)electronic devices is determined by the alignment of the respective frontier energy levels at both sides of the heterojunctions. Controlling the interface electronic landscape is a key element for achieving favourable level alignment for energy and charge transfer processes. Here, we show that the electronic properties of polar ZnO surfaces can be reversibly modified using organic photochromic switches. By employing a range of surface characterization techniques combined with density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we demonstrate that self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of photochromic phosphonic acid diarylethenes (PA-DAE) can be employed to reversibly change the electronic properties of polar ZnO/SAM structures by light stimulus. The highest occupied molecular orbital level of PA-DAE is raised by 0.7 eV and the lowest unoccupied one lowered by 0.9 eV, respectively, upon illumination by ultraviolet light and the levels shift back to their original position upon illumination by green light. Our results thus provide a pathway to tailor hybrid interface electronic properties in a dynamic manner upon simple light illumination, which can be exploited to reversibly tune the electrical properties of photo-switchable (opto)electronic devices.
Content:
Peer Reviewed
In:
Weinheim : Wiley, 28,28, 1616-3028
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1002/adfm.201800716
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/20562-4
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