Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-c4f8m Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-18T01:40:06.932Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Molecular multilayers: structure and templating effects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

Sandrine Heutz
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices, Imperial College, London SW7 2AY, U. K
Sallie M. Bayliss
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices, Imperial College, London SW7 2AY, U. K
Rudi Cloots
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Chimie Inorganique Structurale, Departement de Chimie B6, Universite de Liege, B-4000 Liege, Belgium
Ruth L. Middleton
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices, Imperial College, London SW7 2AY, U. K
Garry Rumbles
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices, Imperial College, London SW7 2AY, U. K
Tim S. Jones
Affiliation:
Department of Chemistry and Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices, Imperial College, London SW7 2AY, U. K
Get access

Abstract

Powder X-Ray diffraction (XRD) has been used to study multilayered structures grown by, organic molecular beam deposition based on the molecular materials PTCDA and metal-free phthalocyanine (H2Pc). Double layers of different polymorphic forms (α, β1 and β2) of H2Pc indicate that the structure of the second layer is determined by the properties of the first layer. It is also shown that the first layer completely disrupts the crystallinity of the second layer in heterostructures containing PTCDA and H2Pc. The implication is that a strong templating effect occurs during the growth of multilayer molecular thin film structures.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2000

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1. Forrest, S. R., Chem. Rev., 97, 1793 (1997).Google Scholar
2. Forrest, S. R., Kaplan, M. L. and Schmidt, P. H., J. Appl. Phys., 55, 1492 (1984).Google Scholar
3. Mobus, M., Karl, N. and Kobayashi, T., J. Cryst. Growth, 116, 495 (1992).Google Scholar
4. McKeown, N. B., Phthalocyanine Materials, (Cambridge University Press 1998), pp 4147.Google Scholar
5. Janczac, J. and Kubiac, R., J. Alloys Comp., 190, 121 (1992).Google Scholar
6. Robertson, J. M., J. Chem. Soc., 1195 (1936).Google Scholar
7. Bayliss, S. M., Heutz, S., G. Rumbles and Jones, T. S., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 1, 3673 (1999).Google Scholar
8. Danziger, J., Dodelet, J.-P., Lee, P., Nebesny, K. W. and Armstrong, N. R., Chem. Mater., 3, 821 (1991).Google Scholar
9. Nanai, N., Yudasaka, M., Ohki, Y., Yoshimura, S., Thin Solid Films, 265, 1 (1995).Google Scholar
10. Bayliss, S. M., Heutz, S., Rumbles, G. and Jones, T. S., Adv. Mater., 12, 202 (2000).Google Scholar