Abstract
For future potential applications of conducting polymers in electronic circuits it would be useful to have fabrication methods which are compatible with semiconductor device technology. The existing electrochemical or wet chemical methods of making electrically conducting polymer films may be difficult to apply inthis context. Therefore, it has been decided to study the possibility of preparing conducting polymer films from the gas phase, in a manner similar to the chemical vapour deposition (CVD) method. Electrically conducting polypyrrole films have been synthesised in two ways: from the vapour phase using hydrogen peroxide, hydrochloric acid, and pyrrole monomers and from polypyrrole doped with ferric chloride using a CVDtechnique.
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