SummaryThe charge behavior of organic light emitting diode (OLED) is investigated by steady-state current–voltage technique and impedance spectroscopy at various temperatures to obtain activation energies of charge injection and transport processes. Good agreement of activation energies obtained by steady-state and frequency-domain was used to analyze their contributions to the charge injection and transport. We concluded that charge is injected into the OLED device mostly through the interfacial states at low voltage region, whereas the thermionic injection dominates in the high voltage region. This comparison of experimental techniques demonstrates their capabilities of identification of major bottleneck of charge injection and transport.
We report on the properties of metal–insulator–semiconductor
(MIS) photoanodes for water oxidation employing a thin RuO2–(IrO2) film as a top catalytic layer. In this
study, MIS photoanodes with the configurations RuO2/SiO2/n-Si and IrO2–RuO2/SiO2/n-Si were prepared and their
photoelectrochemical (PEC) oxygen evolution under solar irradiation
has been discussed. The thin SiO2 layers were prepared
by the atomic layer deposition method and the RuO2–(IrO2) thin layers were deposited by the metal–organic chemical
vapor deposition method. The photocurrent and photovoltage of these
MIS photoanodes were studied in 1 M aq. H2SO4 (pH = 0), 0.5 M aq. Na2SO4 (pH = 6), and 1
M aq. KOH (pH = 14) electrolytes showing the trend acidic > alkaline
> near-neutral pH conditions for both RuO2- and IrO2–RuO2-based structures. The RuO2/SiO2/n-Si photoanode exhibited a photovoltage
of 0.49 V and was able to generate a photocurrent of ∼10 mA/cm2 at a thermodynamic water oxidation potential (1.23 V vs the normal hydrogen electrode, NHE) in 1 M aq. H2SO4 solution under 1 Sun intensity with AM 1.5
spectrum. A photovoltage of 0.42 V and a photocurrent of ∼4
mA/cm2 were achieved for the IrO2–RuO2/SiO2/n-Si photoanode under acidic
conditions. The stability of the photoanodes was examined in 1 M aq.
H2SO4 and 1 M aq. KOH solutions. Chronoamperometry
measurements on the RuO2/SiO2/n-Si photoanode in acidic solution under an applied voltage of 1.23
V versus NHE showed the deterioration of the photoanode
after 2 h of operation. Similarly, stability measurements were performed
on IrO2–RuO2/SiO2/n-Si photoanodes in 1 M aq. H2SO4 solution.
Under acidic conditions, at an applied bias of 1.23 V versus NHE, a photocurrent of ∼2 mA/cm2 was observed,
which was stable for 24 h for the IrO2–RuO2-based photoanodes. The preparation, PEC activity, stability, and
characterization of the RuO2/SiO2/n-Si and IrO2–RuO2/SiO2/n-Si have been discussed in our study.
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