The current–voltage characteristics I(V) of model organic devices are studied under ultra-high-vacuum conditions. Active materials are N,N8-bis-(1-naphthyl)-N,N8-diphenyl1-1,1-biphenyl1-4,48-diamine ~a-NPD! and pentacene, electrode materials are polycrystalline Au and the conductive polymer poly~3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene!/poly~styrenesulfonate! ~PEDOT/ PSS!. Despite a similar work function of ...

The analysis of DNA in the posthuman genome project era has become an ever-expanding branch of research and is thus routinely employed in the majority of biochemical laboratories. This work discusses the mechanism and label-free detection of DNA using a pentacene thin film transistor with a gold floating electrode on the active layer. Thiolated polynucleotide probes were used, which form self-a...

We report on the effects of low energy ion implantation on thin films of pentacene, carried out to investigate the efficacy of this process in the fabrication of organic electronic devices. Two different ions, Ne and N, have been implanted and compared, to assess the effects of different reactivity within the hydrocarbon matrix. Strong modification of the electrical conductivity, stable in time...

© 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim 1 wileyonlinelibrary.com order provide an opportunity to understand many fundamental physical properties relevant to solar energy conversion. Additionally, organic crystals are promising in their own right due to the effi cient carrier and energy transport properties associated with their long-range order. In particular, crystalline and polycrys...

N. Koch,*,† J. Ghijsen,‡ R. L. Johnson,§ J. Schwartz,⊥ J.-J. Pireaux,‡ and A. Kahn† Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton UniVersity, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Spectroscopie Electronique, Facultés UniVersitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, B-5000 Namur, Belgium, II. Institut für Experimentalphysik, UniVersität Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany, and Depa...

We report coverage and temperature dependent bonding distances of vacuum-sublimed pentacene (PEN) submonolayers on Ag(111) obtained by the X-ray standing wave technique. The average vertical bonding distance of 2.98 Å at room temperature for 0.50 monolayer (ML) coverage increases to 3.12 Å for 0.75 ML due to competing intermolecular and adsorbate-substrate interactions. In contrast, decreasing ...

We use time-dependent density functional theory and time-dependent ZINDO (a semi-empirical method) to study transfer of an extra electron between a pair of pentacene molecules. A measure of the electronic transfer integral is computed in a dynamic picture via the vertical excitation energy from a delocalized anionic ground state. With increasing dimer separation, this dynamical measurement of c...

Polycyclic hydrocarbons that possess extended p conjugation are of significant interest because of their potential use in optical and electronic devices such as light emitting devices, field-effect transistors, and photovoltaics. While a majority of studies have focused on acenes such as pentacene and its derivatives (e.g., 1; Scheme 1), these systems are susceptible to oxidative and photolytic...