Vacuum level alignment of pentacene on LiF/Au
- 15 July 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 94 (2) , 1289-1291
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1585112
Abstract
We examined the interfaces of pentacene on LiF/Au substrates as a function of LiF thickness. We found that, regardless of the thickness of LiF, upon pentacene deposition onto LiF, the pentacene vacuum level aligns with that of LiF. We also show that LiF exhibits an interface dipole when deposited onto Au and that the magnitude of the interface dipole increases as the LiF thickness increases. The change in vacuum level as a function of LiF thickness allows the Fermi level position within the band gap of pentacene to be moved from 0.5 eV above the highest occupied molecular orbital to 2.1 eV above the highest occupied molecular orbital. This produces a hole injection barrier of 0.5 eV at the pentacene/Au interface and an electron injection barrier of 0.1 eV at the pentacene/40-Å-LiF/Au interface.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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