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Author Abad, Enrique

Title Energy level alignment and electron transport through metal/organic contacts : from interfaces to molecular electronics / Enrique Abad
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Springer theses, 2190-5053
Springer theses.
Contents eneral Introduction -- Theoretical Foundation -- Further Developments in IDIS Model -- The IDIS Model at the Molecular Limit -- Results for Various Interfaces: C60, Benzene, TTF, TCNQ and Pentacene over Au(111) -- General Conclusions and Future Work
Summary In recent years, ever more electronic devices have started to exploit the advantages of organic semiconductors. The work reported in this thesis focuses on analyzing theoretically the energy level alignment of different metal/organic interfaces, necessary to tailor devices with good performance. Traditional methods based on density functional theory (DFT), are not appropriate for analyzing them because they underestimate the organic energy gap and fail to correctly describe the van der Waals forces. Since the size of these systems prohibits the use of more accurate methods, corrections to those DFT drawbacks are desirable. In this work a combination of a standard DFT calculation with the inclusion of the charging energy (U) of the molecule, calculated from first principles, is presented. Regarding the dispersion forces, incorrect long range interaction is substituted by a van der Waals potential. With these corrections, the C60, benzene, pentacene, TTF and TCNQ/Au(111) interfaces are analyzed, both for single molecules and for a monolayer. The results validate the induced density of interface states model
Analysis Physics
Chemistry
Optical materials
Surfaces (Physics)
Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films
Optical and Electronic Materials
Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films
Notes Ph. D. Autonomous University of Madrid
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject Energy level densities.
Electron transport.
Organic electronics.
Density functionals.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Semiconductors.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Electronics -- Solid State.
Physique.
Astronomie.
Density functionals
Electron transport
Energy level densities
Organic electronics
Genre/Form masters theses.
doctoral dissertations.
theses.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
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