CRC 951 I: HIOS - Adjusting energy levels of hybrid inorganic/organic heterostructures (Project A8)

This project will provide fundamental understanding of the energy levels at HIOS interfaces comprising ZnO and wide-gap conjugated molecules, mainly using photoelectron spectroscopy and the Kelvin probe method. Furthermore, we target developing means to adjust energy levels at a given inorganic/organic material pairing, in order to optimize either energy or charge transfer across the interface, using strong electron acceptor/donor molecules as interlayers between the two semiconducting materials and covalently bound arene-phosphonate monolayers.