A DFT Study of Polyethylene Chain Deformation and Copper Surface Oxidation Effects on Charge Injection Barriers at Cu-PE Interfaces
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Abstract
Chemical and physical defects (impurities and deformations, respectively) at the metal/polymer hetero-structures play a vital role in the charge injection process at the metal/polymer interface. The objective of the present work is to study the effect of polyethylene chain deformation and copper surface oxidation on the barriers to charge injection at the Cu <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">(111)</sub> /PE <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">(001)</sub> interface. The chain deformation in polyethylene is represented by lamella structure, in addition, copper surface oxidation appears using oxygen adatom impurities. The electronic properties of these structures are studied using density functional theory as a computational quantum mechanical method. The computations concluded that lamella and oxygen adatom defects produce the deepest trap states for holes 0.6 eV and electrons 0.77 eV, respectively. Additionally, this work concludes that the studied defects cannot explain the barrier to injection of 1 eV at the copper/polyethylene interfaces alone.
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