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Spectral photosensitivity of an organic semiconductor in a submicron metal grating

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The photoelectric effect in films of the copper phthalocyanine organic semiconductor (α-CuPc) has been experimentally studied for two fundamentally different geometries. A sample in the first, normal geometry is fabricated in the form of a sandwich with an α-CuPc film between a transparent SnO2 electrode on a substrate and an upper reflecting Al electrode. In the second case of the planar geometry, the semiconductor is deposited on the substrate with a system of submicron chromium interdigital electrodes. It has been found that the effective photoconductivity in the planar geometry is more than two orders of magnitude higher than that in the normal geometry. In addition to the classical model (without excitons), a simple exciton model has been proposed within which a relation has been obtained between the probability of the formation of electron–hole pairs and the characteristic recombination and dissociation times of excitons. An increase in the photoconductivity in the planar geometry has been explained within the exciton model by an increase in the rate of dissociation of excitons into electron–hole pairs owing to acceptor oxygen molecules, which diffuse more efficiently into the film in the case of the planar geometry where the upper electrode is absent.

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Original Russian Text © L.M. Blinov, V.V. Lazarev, S.G. Yudin, S.P. Palto, 2016, published in Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2016, Vol. 149, No. 2, pp. 415–422.

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Blinov, L.M., Lazarev, V.V., Yudin, S.G. et al. Spectral photosensitivity of an organic semiconductor in a submicron metal grating. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 122, 361–367 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776116010131

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