Tuesday, 27 June 2006 - 1:15 PM
Bonanza Room B (John Ascuaga’s Nugget Casino Resort)
175

Scanning probe microscopy and nanolithography for organic electronics

David S. Ginger, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Despite widespread appreciation that nanoscale film morphology is critical to the performance of organic electronics, we are still limited by our ability to alter polymer film morphology and our ability to probe carrier generation and recombination dynamics on sub-100 nm length-scales in conjugated polymer films. In this talk we describe an approach to solving this problem that combines scanning-probe lithography (to template nanoscale phase separation in organic films) with new methods of electrostatic force microscopy that can resolve carrier generation and recombination with 100 nanometer spatial resolution, and 100 microsecond temporal resolution--time and length scales relevant to photovoltaic device operation in model conjugated polymer blends.


Web Page: faculty.washington.edu/dginger/

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