Old Metal Oxide Clusters in New Applications: Spontaneous Reduction of Keggin and Dawson Polyoxometalate Layers by a Metallic Electrode for Improving Efficiency in Organic Optoelectronics
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Abstract
The present study is aimed at investigating the solid state reduction of a representative series of Keggin and Dawson polyoxometalate (POM) films in contact with a metallic (aluminum) electrode and at introducing them as highly efficient cathode interlayers in organic optoelectronics. We show that, upon reduction, up to four electrons are transferred from the metallic electrode to the POM clusters of the Keggin series dependent on addenda substitution, whereas a six electron reduction was observed in the case of the Dawson type clusters. The high degree of their reduction by Al was found to be of vital importance in obtaining effective electron transport through the cathode interface. A large improvement in the operational characteristics of organic light emitting devices and organic photovoltaics based on a wide range of different organic semiconducting materials and incorporating reduced POM/Al cathode interfaces was achieved as a result of the large decrease of the electron injection/extraction barrier, the enhanced electron transport and the reduced recombination losses in our reduced POM modified devices.
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