Fabrication of a novel organic polymer thin film

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Title: Fabrication of a novel organic polymer thin film
Author(s): Jacob, M. V.; Easton, C. D.; Woods, G. S.; Berndt, C. C.
Abstract: Fabrication of organic polymer thin films and organic semiconductors are critical for the development of sophisticated organic thin film based devices. Radio Frequency plasma polymerisation is a well developed and widely used fabrication technique for polymer thin films. This paper describes the fabrication of an organic polymer thin film from a monomer based on Lavandula angustifolia. Several polymer thin films were manufactured with thicknesses ranging from 200 nm to 2400 nm. The energy gap of the polymer thin film was measured to be 2.93 eV. The refractive index and extinction coefficient was determined to be 1.565 (at 500 nm) and 0.01 (at 500 nm) respectively. The organic polymer thin film demonstrates the possibility of an environmentally friendly, cost effective organic semiconductor.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology
Source: Thin Solid Films, no. 516 (2008), pp. 3884–3887
Publication year: 2008
Keyword(s): Optical properties; Organic semiconductor; Permittivity; Plasma polymerisation; Polymer; Thin film
Publisher: Elsevier
ISSN: 0040-6090
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2007.07.151
Peer reviewed