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Fabrication of Nano-engineered Transparent Conducting Oxides by Pulsed Laser Deposition
Published on: February 27, 2013
Spatially modulating interfacial properties of transparent conductive oxides: patterning work function with
Kristina M Knesting1, Peter J Hotchkiss, Bradley A Macleod
1Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, USA.
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|September 30, 2011
Abstract:
The interface between an organic semiconductor and a transparent conducting oxide is crucial to the performance of organic optoelectronics. We use microcontact printing to pattern pentafluorobenzyl phosphonic acid self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on indium tin oxide (ITO). We obtain high-fidelity patterns with sharply defined edges and with large work function contrast (comparable to that obtained from phosphonic acid SAMs deposited from solution).

