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Interface Formation Between Silver and Pentacene: A Photoemission Spectroscopy Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Neil J. Watkins
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, U.S.A.
Quoc Toan Le
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, U.S.A.
Serkan Zorba
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, U.S.A.
Li Yan
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, U.S.A.
Yongli Gao
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, U.S.A.
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Abstract

We report the interface formation between silver (Ag) and pentacene, an organic material used as an active material in organic thin-film transistors, using x-ray and ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (XPS and UPS). XPS results indicate that silver does not chemically react with pentacene regardless of the deposition order. We see that neither pentacene nor silver exhibited simple layer by layer growth when deposited on the other. UPS results show that a dipole forms as pentacene is deposited on silver.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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