Organic/hybrid thin films deposited by matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE)
Some of the most exciting materials research in the 21st century attempts to resolve the challenge of simulating, synthesizing, and characterizing new materials with unique properties designed from first principles. Achievements in such development for organic and organic-inorganic hybrid materials...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Applied Physics Reviews 2017-12, Vol.4 (4) |
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Zusammenfassung: | Some of the most exciting materials research in the 21st century attempts to resolve the
challenge of simulating, synthesizing, and characterizing new materials with unique
properties designed from first principles. Achievements in such development for organic
and organic-inorganic hybrid materials make them important options for electronic and/or
photonic devices because they can impart multi-functionality, flexibility, transparency,
and sustainability to emerging systems, such as wearable electronics. Functional organic
materials include small molecules, oligomers, and polymers, while hybrid materials include
inorganic nanomaterials (such as zero-dimensional quantum dots, one-dimensional carbon
nanotubes, or two-dimensional nanosheets) combined with organic matrices. A critically
important step to implementing new electronic and photonic devices using such materials is
the processing of thin films. While solution-based processing is the most common
laboratory technique for organic and hybrid materials, vacuum-based deposition has been
critical to the commercialization of organic light emitting diodes based on small
molecules, for example. Therefore, it is desirable to explore vacuum-based deposition of
organic and hybrid materials that include larger macromolecules, such as polymers. This
review article motivates the need for physical vapor deposition of polymeric and hybrid
thin films using matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE), which is a type of
pulsed laser deposition. This review describes the development of variations in the MAPLE
technique, discusses the current understanding of laser-target interactions and growth
mechanisms for different MAPLE variations, surveys demonstrations of MAPLE-deposited
organic and hybrid materials for electronic and photonic devices, and provides a future
outlook for the technique. |
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ISSN: | 1931-9401 1931-9401 |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.5000509 |