Names:

Sara Prada
Ariadna Yañez
Gerardo Medina

UV photodetector based on self-affine Langmuir-Blodgett film of nickel octabutoxy

phthalocyanine doped with stearic acid
Aim of the paper
LB layer composition
How is prepared the LB layer?
Develop NiPc(OBu)8 LB film for photodetection in UV
regions.
Obtain the electrical characteristics of a NiPc(OBu)8 LB
film doped with stearic acid.
Obtain the transient response of the LB film.
Make use of grazing incidence X-ray diffraction
(GIXD), atomic force, microscopy techniques and UV-
visible spectroscopy, to determine and characterize said
layer.
Nickel (II)1,4,8, 11, 15, 18,22,25-octabutoxy-29H,
31H-phthalocyanine (NiPc(OBu)8) doped with stearic
acid. Silicon and quartz substrates
Initially, NiPc(OBu)8 and stearic acid were dissolved in
chloroform, and 0.3 mol% of the stearic acid was
obtained in the solution. Then they were stirred for 20
min to obtain a resulting mixture by spreading drop by
drop at the water-air interface. Then the film was
confined by the Teflon barriers and was symmetrically
compressed.

Also, the surface pressure area for nickel was obtained

Characterization of the LB layer
using a Langmuir-Blodgett channel of 78 × 12 cm2. To
finally, transferred multilayers of the NiPc(OBu)8 film to
the substrates at a pressure of 25 mN/m under
environmental conditions using the Langmuir-Blodgett
(LB) technique.
- The thickness of the plates was varied during the
investigation having a range between 15.4 nm-
186.1 nm.
- The structure is square and with a crystalline
character.
- Self-affine character
- Absorbs in the UV-visible spectrum