AVS 47th International Symposium
    Organic Films and Devices Wednesday Sessions
       Session OF-WeA

Invited Paper OF-WeA1
Rates of Interfacial Electron Transfer Across Well-Defined Model Interfaces

Wednesday, October 4, 2000, 2:00 pm, Room 313

Session: Self-Assembled Monolayers: Electron Transfer and Film Properties
Presenter: C.E.D. Chidsey, Stanford University
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The injection of electrons and holes into molecular or polymeric organic materials is a key process in many organic devices such as light-emitting diodes, transistors and sensors. Injection is normally accomplished by the thermal transfer of electrons across interfaces between metallic or semiconducting electrodes and the organic material. I will discuss methods to measure the rate of this process across well-defined model interfaces and our developing understanding of the role of molecular structure in determining these rates.