Conjugated polymer surfaces, photoelectron spectroscopy, study

Theory and experimental methods. Since the combined experimental-theoretical approach is stressed, both the underlying theoretical and experimental aspects receive considerable attention in chapters 2 and 3. Computational methods are presented in order to introduce the nomenclature, discuss the input into the models, and the other approximations used. Thereafter, a brief survey of possible surface science experimental techniques is provided, with a critical view towards the application of these techniques to studies of conjugated polymer surfaces and interfaces. Next, some of the relevant details of the most common, and singly most useful, measurement employed in the studies of polymer surfaces and interfaces, photoelectron spectroscopy, are pointed out, to provide the reader with a familiarity of certain concepts used in data interpretation in the Examples chapter (chapter 7). Finally, the use of the output of the computational modelling in interpreting experimental electronic and chemical structural data, the combined experimental-theoretical approach, is illustrated. 

The Reactivity of Low-Workfunction Metals on Conjugated Polymer Surfaces A Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study... 

Here we survey a series of possible surface-sensitive measurements which in principle can be used to study the surfaces of conjugated polymers and the early stages of metal interface formation. We then motivate the use of photoelectron spectroscopy. 

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