Effect of impurities on pentacene island nucleation
arXiv:0809.4674 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.205328
Abstract
Pentacenequinone (PnQ) impurities have been introduced into a pentacene source material in a controlled manner to quantify the relative effects of the impurity content on grain boundary structure and thin film nucleation. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been employed to directly characterize films grown using 0.0-7.5% PnQ by weight in the source material. Analysis of the distribution of capture zones areas of submonolayer islands as a function of impurity content shows that for large PnQ content the critical nucleus size for forming a Pn island is smaller than for low PnQ content. This result indicates a favorable energy for formation of Pn-PnQ complexes, which in turn suggests that the primary effect of PnQ on Pn mobility may arise from homogeneous distribution of PnQ defects.
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