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Title: Photoconductivity study of acid on Zinc phthalocyanine pyridine thin films

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4946232· OSTI ID:22591334
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Department of Physics, Govt. College for Girls, Ludhiana (India)
  2. Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh (India)

The Metal Phthalocyanine (MPc) have attracted much interest because of chemical and high thermal stability. Molecules forming a crystal of MPc are held together by weak attractive Vander Waals forces. Organic semiconductors have π conjugate bonds which allow electrons to move via π-electron cloud overlaps. Conduction mechanisms for organic semiconductor are mainly through tunneling; hopping between localized states, mobility gaps, and phonon assisted hopping. The photo conductivity of thin films of these complexes changes when exposed to oxidizing and reducing gases. Arrhenius plot is used to find the thermal activation energy in the intrinsic region and impurity scattering region. Arrhenius plotsare used to find the thermal activation energy.

OSTI ID:
22591334
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1728, Issue 1; Conference: ICC 2015: International conference on condensed matter and applied physics, Bikaner (India), 30-31 Oct 2015; Other Information: (c) 2016 Author(s); Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English