Over What Length Scale Does an Inorganic Substrate Perturb the Structure of a Glassy Organic Semiconductor?

Bagchi, Kushal; Deng, Chuting; Bishop, Camille; Li, Yuhui; Jackson, Nicholas E.; Yu, Lian; Toney, M. F.; de Pablo, J. J.; Ediger, M. D.

doi:10.1021/acsami.0c06428

Title: Over What Length Scale Does an Inorganic Substrate Perturb the Structure of a Glassy Organic Semiconductor?

Journal Article · Wed May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c06428· OSTI ID:1647596

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Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)

While the bulk structure of vapor-deposited glasses has been extensively studied, structure at buried interfaces has received little attention, despite being important for organic electronic applications. To learn about glass structure at buried interfaces, we study the structure of vapor-deposited glasses of the organic semiconductor DSA-Ph (1,4-di-[4-(N,N-diphenypamino]styrylbenzene) as a function of film thickness; the structure is probed with grazing incidence X-ray scattering. We deposit on silicon and gold substrates and span a film thickness range of 10-600 nm. Our experiments demonstrate that interfacial molecular packing in vapor-deposited glasses of DSA-Ph is more disordered compared to the bulk. At a deposition temperature near room temperature, we estimate similar to 8 nm near the substrate can have modified molecular packing. Molecular dynamics simulations of a coarse-grained representation of DSA-Ph reveal a similar length scale. In both the simulations and the experiments, deposition temperature controls glass structure beyond this interfacial layer of a few nanometers.

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Research Organization:: SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-76SF00515; DMR-1720415; SC0002161; AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1647596

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1767438

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Vol. 12, Issue 23; ISSN 1944-8244

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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