Crystal step edges can trap electrons on the surfaces of n-type organic semiconductors.

ABSTRACT: Understanding relationships between microstructure and electrical transport is an important goal for the materials science of organic semiconductors. Combining high-resolution surface potential mapping by scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM) with systematic field effect transport measurements, we show that step edges can trap electrons on the surfaces of single crystal organic semiconductors. n-type organic semiconductor crystals exhibiting positive step edge surface potentials display threshold voltages that increase and carrier mobilities that decrease with increasing step density, characteristic of trapping, whereas crystals that do not have positive step edge surface potentials do not have strongly step density dependent transport. A device model and microelectrostatics calculations

SUBMITTER: He T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5976653 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature