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Item Investigation of charge transport in Vanadyl-phthalocyanine with molybdenum trioxide as a buffer layer: Impedance spectroscopic analysis(Elsevier Ltd, 2015) Raveendra Kiran, M.R.; Ulla, H.; Krishnamanohara; Satyanarayan, M.N.; Umesh, G.Charge transport in organic materials is one of the intrinsic properties, which governs the device performance. In this paper, we report the fabrication and electrical characterization of two diodes ITO/VOPc/MoO3/Al and ITO/VOPc/Al. We investigate the electrical conduction of Vanadyl phthalocyanine (VOPc) in both the devices and also the effect of MoO3 as a buffer layer. Improvement of current density through the device is estimated using current density - voltage characteristics and capacitance - voltage characteristics. Space charge limited current (SCLC) conduction with an exponential trap distribution is observed from Impedance measurements. The dominant hopping charge transport is discussed based on ac conductivity measurements and by adopting Correlated barrier hopping (CBH) model. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Item Effect of deposition rate on the charge transport in Vanadyl-phthalocyanine thin films(Elsevier Ltd, 2017) Raveendra Kiran, M.R.; Ulla, H.; Satyanarayan, M.N.; Umesh, G.We report fabrication of Vanadyl phthalocyanine (VOPc) based diodes with different deposition rates (0.1, 1 and 5 Å/s) in hole only device configuration: ITO/MoO3/VOPc/MoO3/Al. The dc and ac electrical conductivity of Vanadyl phthalocyanine based devices is investigated by employing Impedance spectroscopy measurements. The frequency dependence of conductivity indicates that the dominant mechanism for charge transport is the hopping type. Further, the dependence of conductivity on temperature and bias voltage clearly indicates that the hopping mechanism is described by the correlated barrier hopping (CBH) model. The thin layer (3 nm) of MoO3 in our devices is seen to enhance the electrical conductivity. J-V measurements indicate that the current density J as well as the charge carrier mobility are higher for the devices fabricated at a relatively lower deposition rate (0.1 Å/s). Our results suggest that the VOPC films deposited at lower rates are more appropriate for the optoelectronic device applications. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.Item Optoelectronic properties of hybrid diodes based on vanadyl-phthalocyanine and zinc oxide(Academic Press, 2017) Raveendra Kiran, M.R.; Ulla, H.; Satyanarayan, M.N.; Umesh, G.We report an investigation of the optoelectronic properties of a hybrid p-n diode device fabricated using ZnO film prepared by sol-gel technique on which a VOPc organic film is deposited by vacuum evaporation. The charge transport properties of devices having the configurations ITO/ZnO/Al and ITO/ZnO/VOPc/MoO3/Al were investigated at different annealing temperatures (150 °C, 250 °C, 350 °C and 450 °C) by Impedance Spectroscopy (IS). The structural, morphological, optical and electrical properties were also studied at different annealing temperatures. The parameters related to the ITO/ZnO and ZnO/VOPc interfaces such as ideality factor (n), barrier height (q?B) and rectification ratio (RR) of the diodes were determined from current density-voltage (J-V) characteristics. IS measurements suggest that the large photocurrent generated is due to the decrease in bulk resistance of the device on account of the generation of electron-hole pairs in the organic active layer when exposed to light. The RR and the photocurrent responsivity (Rph) values obtained from the J-V characteristics compare well with those obtained from the IS measurements. It was observed that the absolute value of Rph (470 mA/W) for the p-n diode with ZnO annealed at 350 °C is high compared to that of diodes with different ZnO annealing temperatures. These values also agree well with the values obtained for p-n diodes of other phthalocyanines. Our studies clearly demonstrate that a p-n diode with ZnO film annealed at 350 °C exhibits much better optoelectronic characteristics on account of increased grain size, improved charge injection due to the reduction of barrier height and hence higher (up to 5 orders) charge carrier mobility. © 2017 Elsevier LtdItem Optoelectronic properties of hybrid diodes based on vanadyl- phthalocyanine and zinc oxide nanorods thin films(Elsevier B.V., 2019) Raveendra Kiran, M.; Ulla, H.; Satyanarayan, M.N.; Umesh, G.Herein, we report the optoelectronic properties of hybrid diodes fabricated using vanadyl phthalocyanine (VOPc) and zinc oxide nanorods (ZNR) with the configuration: ITO/ZNR/VOPc/MoO3/Al. Vertically aligned ZnO nanorods were grown using a simple aqueous solution (AS) method as a function of growth temperature. The correlation between the morphology of ZNR films and the optoelectronic properties of the ZNR/VOPc hybrid devices was investigated. The results show that the hybrid diodes with ZNR films grown at 120 °C offer the best optoelectronic properties. The higher photocurrent responsivity, Rph, (16.28 A/W) was achieved for devices with ZNR films grown at 120 °C. This value is 25 times higher than the Rph value obtained for the devices made with ZnO nanoparticle films that were reported earlier. © 2019Item Observation of resistance switching in Vanadyl-phthalocyanine thin films(Elsevier Ltd, 2020) Raveendra Kiran, M.R.; Ulla, H.; Krishnamanohara; Satyanarayan, M.N.; Umesh, G.Herein, we report the first observation of Negative differential resistance (NDR) associated with resistance switching in Vanadyl-phthalocyanine (VOPc) based devices with the configuration: ITO/F4TCNQ/VOPc/MoO3/Al. It was observed that the devices were initially at low resistance ON state (LS) and were switched to high resistance OFF state (HS) at sufficient applied bias. The NDR behaviour was observed during the initial sweep for each device (often referred to as the writing process). The ON/OFF state transition was attributed to the formation and neutralization of interface dipoles at the ITO/VOPc interface. Finally, the observed non-volatile RS switching behaviour was demonstrated employing impedance spectroscopic studies. This study opens up the potential applications of VOPc Resistance Switching devices in security and data protection applications. © 2020 Elsevier B.V.