CHEMICOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE POLY(TETRAHALO-P-PHENYLENESELENIDE)S SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS

Chemico-physical characterization of semiconducting polymers having selenium in the chain have been done by XPS, microprobe analysis and optical absorption. The binding energy of Se3d peak shows that there are positive partial charges on the selenium atoms. The high chemical shift of the C1s binding energy in the case of C-Br is attributed to the s-character of bromine when bound to carbon. This s-character gives an effective electronegativity higher than Pauling's value. After doping, the binding energy of the dopant (Cl or I) corresponds to the anion position. Therefore we can imagine that during doping there is polaron or bipolaron formation. The hypothesis of polaron formation is conforted by optical absorption experimental results. The homogeneity of the powder has been checked by microprobe analysis. The relative concentrations are nearly the one expected.