BARC/PUB/2010/0458

 
 

Charge transport characteristics of cobalt phthalocyanine thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy.

 
     
 
Author(s)

Gupta, S. K.; Singh, A.; Samanta, S.; Arvind Kumar; Debnath, A. K.; Aswal, D. K.
(ThPD)

Source

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2010. Vol. 1313: pp. 60-64

ABSTRACT

In the recent times organic semiconductors (OSC) have received attention because of their application in low-cost, flexible, and large area electronics devices. The application of OSC thin films has been limited due to their low charge carrier mobility (~ 0.1 cm2/V-s). We have investigated the effect of substrate on structure and charge transport characteristics of cobalt phthalocyanine (CoPc) films. Thin films have been grown on both single crystal (sapphire and LaAlO3) and amorphous (quartz) substrates using molecular beam epitaxy system. The films grown on LaAlO3 substrates exhibited a higher value of mobility (~ 4 cm2/V-s) while those grown on Al2O3 and quartz showed mobility value of ~ 1cm2/V-s. High mobility for LaAlO3 substrates has been attributed to the enhanced ordering of the molecules due to natural twin boundaries of substrates. In order to further confirm role of grain boundaries in aligning the CoPc molecules, we measured the charge transport on films deposited at bi-crystal SrTiO3 substrates. The results showed that current along bi-crystal grain boundary is three orders of magnitude higher than for films on SrTiO3 substrate without grain boundary, which confirms our hypothesis of ordering of molecules along grain boundaries.

 
 
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