A disordered layered phase in thin films of sexithiophene

Autor: J. Ivanco, Sergiu Pop, Heinz-Georg Flesch, Ingo Salzmann, Alfred Neuhold, Dietrich R. T. Zahn, Martin Oehzelt, Teodor Toader, Roland Resel, Detlef-Matthias Smilgies, Armin Moser
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Chemical Physics Letters. 574:51-55
ISSN: 0009-2614
DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2013.04.053
Popis: This Letter reports the impact of the evaporation rate on the crystallographic phase formation of vacuum deposited α-sexithiophene thin films studied by X-ray diffraction methods. The experiments reveal the formation of two crystal phases, one of which is a thermodynamically stable phase occurring at low rates, while the second is favored by high rates. This second phase exhibits an increased layer spacing and diffraction features typical for two-dimensional crystals which are laterally ordered but without interlayer correlations of the molecular positions. This disordered layered phase comprises molecules of nonuniform conformations, and is kinetically induced.
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