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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik
CPP 41: Organic Photovoltaics III
CPP 41.3: Vortrag
Freitag, 27. März 2009, 11:00–11:15, ZEU 222
Tuning the ionization energy of organic-semiconductor films: The role of intramolecular polar bonds — •Ingo Salzmann1, Steffen Duhm1, Georg Heimel1, Martin Oehzelt2, Rolf Kniprath1, Robert L. Johnson3, Jürgen P. Rabe1, and Norbert Koch1 — 1Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany — 2Institut für Experimentalphysik, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria — 3Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
For the prototypical conjugated organic molecules pentacene and perfluoropentacene, we demonstrate that the surface termination of ordered organic thin films with intramolecular polar bonds (e.g., -H versus -F) can be used to tune the ionization energy. The collective electrostatics of these oriented bonds also explains the pronounced orientation dependence of the ionization energy. Furthermore, mixing of differently terminated molecules on a molecular length scale allows continuously tuning the ionization energy of thin organic films between the limiting values of the two pure materials. Our study shows that surface engineering of organic semiconductors via adjusting the polarity of intramolecular bonds represents a generally viable alternative to the surface modification of substrates to control the energetics at organic/(in)organic interfaces.