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Low-Temperature Thermal Conductivity of Rubrene Single Crystals: Quantitative Estimation of Defect Density in Bulk and Film Crystals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Yugo Okada
Affiliation:
yugo@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
M. Uno
Affiliation:
uno@tri.pref.osaka.jp, TRI-Osaka, Izumi, Japan
Jun Takeya
Affiliation:
takeya@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp, Osaka University, Dept. of Chemistry, Grad. School of Science, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, 560-0043, Japan, +81-6-6850-5398, +81-6-6850-6797
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Abstract

Thermal conductivity of rubrene single crystals is measured for both bulk and film-like crystals down to 0.5 K in order to estimate quantitatively density of crystalline defects through their phonon mean free paths. The temperature profile of the bulk rubrene crystals exhibit pronounced peak at ∼ 10 K in the thermal conductivity as the result of very long mean-free paths of their phonons which indicates extremely low-level defect density in the region of 1015-1016 cm−3 depending on different growth methods. The crystals grown from gas phase tend to have less defects than those grown from solution. It turned out that the film-like crystals have a few times more defect density as the result of the measurement by using newly developed devices for minute crystals.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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