Fabrication of Schottky barrier diodes utilizing carboxylate bridged trinuclear mixed valence cobalt(<scp>iii</scp>/<scp>ii</scp>/<scp>iii</scp>) complexes of tetradentate N<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>donor reduced Schiff base ligands
Sudip Bhunia, Pubali Das, Snehasis Banerjee, Rosa M. Gomila, Michael G. B. Drew, Antonio Frontera, Partha Pratim Ray, Shouvik Chattopadhyay
Abstract
The band gaps in three new mixed valence trinuclear cobalt complexes in their solid state have been determined experimentally and also by DFT calculation. The complexes have been used to fabricate Schottky barrier diodes.
Topics & Concepts
ChemistryValence (chemistry)CobaltCarboxylateCrystallographyDiodeSchottky diodeStereochemistryInorganic chemistryOptoelectronicsOrganic chemistryPhysicsMolecular Junctions and NanostructuresMagnetism in coordination complexesOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes Research