Electronic Structure in Thin Film Organic Semiconductors Studied using Soft X-ray Emission and Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

Journal Article · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2006 · Thin Solid Films

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsf.2005.12.221· OSTI ID:930101

Zhang, Y; Downes, J; Wang, S; Learmonth, T; Plucinski, L; Matsuura, A; McGuinness, C; Glans, P; Bernardis, S

The electronic structure of thin films of the organic semiconductors copper and vanadyl (VO) phthalocyanine (Pc) has been measured using resonant soft X-ray emission spectroscopy and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering. For Cu-Pc we report the observation of two discrete states near E{sub F}. This differs from published photoemission results, but is in excellent agreement with density functional calculations. For VO-Pc, the vanadyl species is shown to be highly localized. Both dipole forbidden V 3d to V 3d*, and O 2p to V 3d* charge transfer transitions are observed, and explained in a local molecular orbital model.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). National Synchrotron Light Source
• Sponsoring Organization: Doe - Office Of Science
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC02-98CH10886
• OSTI ID: 930101
• Report Number(s): BNL-80739-2008-JA; THSFAP; TRN: US0806705
• Journal Information: Thin Solid Films, Vol. 515; ISSN 0040-6090
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
AGREEMENTS
ATOMIC MODELS
CHARGES
COPPER
DENSITY
DIPOLES
ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE
EMISSION
EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY
FUNCTIONALS
MOLECULES
ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS
PHOTOEMISSION
PHTHALOCYANINES
SCATTERING
THIN FILMS
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