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Characterization of carbon nanotube doped PEDOT:PSS thin film devices

WENG SANG YIP1, KAI LIN WOON1,*

Affiliation

  1. Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia

Abstract

ITO/PEDOTOPSS/Al devices containing dispersed Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) and pure PEDOT:PSS are compared. It was found that the conductivity of each CNT doped PEDOT: PSS film was reduced upon application of 20Hz pulses of -20V at reversed bias. Deformation of the aluminium electrode was found to occur upon application of voltage on the PEDOT: PSS film. However, no aluminium electrode deformation occurs on CNT-doped PEDOT: PSS films. This was verified by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Depth profiling by Auger spectroscopy indicated high level of oxidation at the aluminium PEDOT: PSS interface for device with pure PEDOT: PSS but significantly less with PEDOT doped with CNTs. Resistance is found to vary in periodic high/low values dependent on direction of voltage sweep.

Keywords

Organic memory, Thin film, Carbon nanotube, PEDOT: PSS, Oxidation, Bipolar switching, Electrical hysteresis.

Citation

WENG SANG YIP, KAI LIN WOON, Characterization of carbon nanotube doped PEDOT:PSS thin film devices, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 4, 7, July 2010, pp.1037-1039 (2010).

Submitted at: May 26, 2010

Accepted at: July 14, 2010