Enforced one-dimensional photoconductivity in core-cladding hexabenzocoronenes.

Autor: Cohen YS; Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA., Xiao S, Steigerwald ML, Nuckolls C, Kagan CR
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nano letters [Nano Lett] 2006 Dec; Vol. 6 (12), pp. 2838-41.
DOI: 10.1021/nl0620233
Abstrakt: Photoconductivity in contorted hexabenzocoronene liquid crystals is found to be exclusively one-dimensional. Spectroscopic measurements and density functional theory support the existence of two pi-systems attributed to a low-energy radialene-core and higher energy out-of-plane alkoxyphenyl rings. Persistent photocurrents, measured as a function of field, channel length, and intensity, fit a stretched exponential characteristic of intracolumnar transport, restricted through the radialene-core by the alkoxyphenyl-cladding. Bimolecular recombination is enhanced with increasing carrier concentration by the system's one-dimensionality.
Databáze: MEDLINE