Communications Chemistry (Jun 2021)

Electronic excitation spectra of organic semiconductor/ionic liquid interface by electrochemical attenuated total reflectance spectroscopy

  • Ichiro Tanabe,
  • Iroha Imoto,
  • Daijiro Okaue,
  • Masaya Imai,
  • Shohei Kumagai,
  • Tatsuyuki Makita,
  • Masato Mitani,
  • Toshihiro Okamoto,
  • Jun Takeya,
  • Ken-ichi Fukui

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-021-00525-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Interfaces are a key functional element in organic devices, but accessing buried interfaces has been challenging, Here the authors present a novel spectroscopic setup to investigate the spectral properties of ionic liquid/organic films interfaces under an electric field.