Optical spectroscopy of organic semiconductor monolayers

Rui He; Nancy G. Tassi; Graciela B. Blanchet; Aron Pinczuk

doi:10.1117/12.888197

18 February 2011 Optical spectroscopy of organic semiconductor monolayers

Rui He, Nancy G. Tassi, Graciela B. Blanchet, Aron Pinczuk

Proceedings Volume 7995, Seventh International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications; 79950R (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.888197
Event: Seventh International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications, 2010, Shanghai, China

Abstract

Growing interest in organic molecular semiconductors is stimulated by their promising applications in flexible devices. Pentacene is a benchmark organic semiconductor material because of its potential applications in high mobility thin film transistors and optoelectronic devices. Highly uniform monolayers of pentacene grown on polymeric substrate of poly alpha-methylstyrene exhibit sharp and intense free exciton (FE) luminescence at low temperatures. The FE emission displays characteristic intensity that grows quadratically with the number of layers. Large enhancements of Raman scattering intensities at the FE resonance enable the first observations of low-lying lattice vibrational modes in films reaching the single monolayer level. The low-lying modes exhibit characteristic changes when going from a single monolayer to two layers, revealing that a phase akin to a thin film phase of pentacene already emerges in structures of only two monolayers. A simple analysis of mode splittings offers estimates of the strength of inter-layer interactions. The results demonstrate novel venues for ultra-thin film characterization and studies of interface effects in organic molecular semiconductor structures.

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Rui He, Nancy G. Tassi, Graciela B. Blanchet, and Aron Pinczuk "Optical spectroscopy of organic semiconductor monolayers", Proc. SPIE 7995, Seventh International Conference on Thin Film Physics and Applications, 79950R (18 February 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.888197

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