Edge-on orientation of thermally evaporated metal phthalocyanines thin films for humidity sensing application

Natashah, Fadlan Arif and Hisamuddin, Syaza Nafisah and Coffey, Aidan H. and Zhu, Chenhui and Bawazeer, Tahani M. and Alsoufi, Mohammad S. and Roslan, Nur Adilah and Supangat, Azzuliani (2024) Edge-on orientation of thermally evaporated metal phthalocyanines thin films for humidity sensing application. Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Electronics, 35 (7). p. 512. ISSN 0957-4522, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-024-12280-6.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-024-12280-6

Abstract

Thermally evaporated metal phthalocyanines (MPcs) were successfully fabricated for humidity-sensing applications. Comparative molecular analysis of three different MPcs sensing layers, namely MnPc, VOPc, and VTTBNc, using the powerful tool of grazing-incidence wide-angle and small-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS/GISAXS), were made to find the correlation between molecule orientation of the sensing layers and their humidity sensing performances. In this study, planar-configurated capacitive Al/MnPc/Al humidity sensor produced the highest sensitivity (17.74 nF/%RH) relative to Al/VTTBNc/Al (11.50 nF/%RH) and Al/VOPc/Al (11.20 nF/%RH) due to its crystallographic orientation being more vertical than the VTTBNc and VOPc counterparts, as confirmed by GIWAXS and GISAXS analysis. Similarly, the MnPc-based sensor produced the fastest response and recovery time of 3 s and 2 s, respectively. Meanwhile, VTTBNc yielded the smallest hysteresis gap of 0.29%. The quantitative and qualitative information, such as crystal coherence length, grain size, and lattice spacing obtained from the GIWAXS and GISAXS, have been studied to explain the humidity sensors' sensitivity, hysteresis, and transient response. The crystallographic orientation of the active sensing layer significantly influences the humidity sensing performance.

Item Type: Article
Funders: Advanced Light Source (DE-AC02-05CH11231), United States Department of Energy (DOE), IUPAP-IUCr-ICTP LAAAMP
Uncontrolled Keywords: Performance; Microstructure; Acceptor; Sensors; Size; Cell
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Department of Physics
Depositing User: Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim
Date Deposited: 28 Oct 2024 02:22
Last Modified: 28 Oct 2024 02:22
URI: http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/45525

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