Electrode effect on photohole generation in smectic phenylnaphthalene liquid crystalline photoconductor
Electrode effect on photohole generation in smectic phenylnaphthalene liquid crystalline photoconductor
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电极效应对近晶苯基萘液晶光电导体光空穴产生的影响
DOI:
10.1063/1.373652
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
J. Hanna
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作者:
Hong Zhang;J. Hanna
The photohole generation process in the smectic phases of a liquid crystalline photoconductor, 2-(4′-octylpheny)-6-dodecyoxylnaphthalene (8-PNP-O12) with different illuminated contact electrodes was investigated through steady-state and transient photocurrent measurements. It was revealed that the photogeneration of holes was governed by two different processes according to the electrode materials: the Onsager type of photocarrier generation in the bulk and the electrode-enhanced hole photoinjection with a delay of μs when Al, and either Pt or In2O3–SnO2 electrodes are applied, respectively. In the latter process, the photogeneration yield was one order of magnitude larger than that in the bulk generation process, but decreased as the molecular ordering degraded from the smectic B phase to the smectic A phase, then to the isotropic phase. According to the spectral response and the results of additional experiments on the effect of chemical doping with electron acceptors, the photohole injection was conclu...