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Modifications électrochimiques de surfaces et dispositifs électroniques organiques

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Organic electronics remains a fruitful research field thanks to the diversity of molecular structures reachable by organic synthesis. Molecular materials offer convenient shaping processes, such as solution processing techniques, which can be used for the fabrication of organic devices on plastic substrates.Our works can be summarized as the elaboration of conductometric devices thanks to electrochemistry and the study of their electrical and sensing properties. They deal with two topics: the development of new transducers based on substituted polyanilines and phthalocyanines and the study of the influence of electrochemical modifications on the behavior of known devices.We first developped polymer - phthalocyanine lateral heterojunctions using the properties of polyanilines. Because of their geometry, these new devices differed from the MSDI heterojunction (Molecular Semiconductor - Doped Insulator), a bilayer-based conductometric transducer developed in the laboratory for the detection of gases such as ozone or ammonia. The comprehensive study of poly (2,3,5,6-tetrafluoroaniline) indicated that this material was a poor conducting polymer, compared to polyaniline whose conductivity can be increased by acid-base doping. The presence of fluorine atoms prevented the emergence of the conductive regime found in acidic medium for polyaniline and poly (2,5-dimethoxyaniline). These three polymers, electrodeposited on interdigitated ITO electrodes, allowed us, after sublimation of the lutetium bisphthalocyanine, to build lateral heterojunctions. The electrical behavior of the different devices, studied in particular by impedance spectroscopy, differed according to the nature of the substituents of the electrodeposited polyaniline. Finally, sensing measurements revealed their efficiency to detect ammonia in humid atmosphere, with a sub-ppm limit of detection.Previous works on the development of MSDI emphasized the primary role of interfaces, particularly in the case of n-MSDI that contained a p-n heterojunction. In addition to the modification of the chemical nature of the underlayer, another way to play with the interfaces is to electrochemically modify the surface of the interdigitated electrodes by reducing diazonium salts. Thus, we grafted various substituted benzenes, some of which led to the formation of multilayers as revealed by electrochemical quartz microbalance measurements. The various surface modifications mainly acted as an insulating barrier that amplified the nonlinear behavior of the current-voltage characteristics of MSDI. The grafting of 2,5-dimethoxybenzene significantly improved the ammonia sensitivity of MSDI based on copper hexadecafluorophthalocyanine and lutetium bisphthalocyanine, with a limit of detection of around 200 ppb.