Abstract
The techniques of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) have been used to characterize the initial nucleation and growth as well as the final surface structure of the conducting organic polymer films poly‐hydroxy‐aniline and aniline‐(3‐aminophenyl boronic acid). STM and AFM results on these films show that they are segregated into small, physically well defined nanometer scale domains or bundles in which the microscopic conduction varies from fully conducting to nonconducting. The overall macroscopic conductivity of the films thus depends upon the conductivity of the individual domains as well as on the electronic coupling between the separate domains.
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