Effect of impurities on the mobility of single crystal pentacene
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- The content of the quinone impurity in pentacene was determined using high pressure liquid chromatography technique ~HPLC!, indicating a reduction by almost one order of magnitude.
- The authors determined the electrical properties of the pure pentacene single crystals using space-charge-limited current ~SCLC!.
- With the effective thickness introduced in the current density JSCLC,t f in Eq. ~1!, the calculated mobility increases by more than a factor of three~see Fig. 3!.
- The authors minimized the number of traps by a careful crystal growth and subsequent handling.
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Q2. What is the molecular packing of the organic conductor pentacene?
Molecular crystals are formed by relatively weak Van der Waals interaction between molecules, where the molecular packing determines the electronic behavior.
Q3. What is the name of the powder used for the single crystal growth?
The violet powder that did not sublime is purified pentacene that is used as the starting material for the single crystal growth.
Q4. Why is the use of argon as the transporting gas motivated by the need to prevent?
The use of ultrapure argon without hydrogen as the transporting gas is motivated by the need to prevent the introduction of other impurities, like 6,13-dihydropentacene in the crystal, which can form by the hydrogenation of the acene at the middle ring ~most reactive positions!.
Q5. How many traps do the authors have in pentacene?
The authors have shown that the reduction of 6,13-pentacenequinone (C22H12O2) impurities in pentacene by a factor five reduces the number of traps by almost two orders of magnitude.
Q6. What is the effect of the vacuum sublimation on the crystals?
In conclusion, the authors have reduced the impurity concentration of pentacenequinone in pentacene by a pretreatment consisting of vacuum sublimation of the impurity under a temperature gradient.
Q7. What is the description of pentacene?
Of the many molecular conductors, pentacene is a promising candidate for future electronic devices and an interesting model system.
Q8. What does the effect of light and temperature on the formation of pentacene?
Under the influence of light and temperature, reactions that oxidize pentacene to pentacenequinone will occur preferentially at dislocations.
Q9. How do the authors obtain a hole mobility for the organic conductor pentacene?
The authors have obtained a hole mobility for the organic conductor pentacene of m535 cm2/V s at room temperature increasing to m558 cm2/V s at 225 K.
Q10. How was the content of the quinone impurity determined?
The content of the quinone impurity in pentacene was determined using high pressure liquid chromatography technique ~HPLC!, indicating a reduction by almost one order of magnitude.
Q11. What is the process of purifying pentacene?
The pentacene is placed in an alumina boat inside a glass tube that is thoroughly cleaned chemically, and then heated in a furnace under vacuum.
Q12. What is the importance of the control of defects and impurity states in molecular organic?
Their results emphasize the importance of the control of defects and impurity states in molecular organic crystals in order to obtain a high electronic mobility, and allow studies of the band transport regime.
Q13. How was the vapor transport technique used to remove pentacenequinone obtained?
The crystals were obtained by vapor transport growth in argon flow after purification of the material by a vacuum sublimation technique designed to remove pentacenequinone.
Q14. What is the normalized effective thickness of the isotropic solid?
For the isotropic solid, the normalized effective thickness is determined to be zeff8 /(x8•y8)50.7 for normalized sample thickness z8(x8•y8)1/252.19 and the ratio for the inplane directions y8/x850.535.
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