TY - JOUR
T1 - Bandlike transport in pentacene and functionalized pentacene thin films revealed by subpicosecond transient photoconductivity measurements
AU - Ostroverkhova, O.
AU - Cooke, D. G.
AU - Shcherbyna, S.
AU - Egerton, R. F.
AU - Hegmann, F. A.
AU - Tykwinski, R. R.
AU - Anthony, J. E.
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - We observe bandlike transport in pentacene and functionalized pentacene thin films using time-resolved terahertz pulse spectroscopy. The measured transient photoconductivity exhibits fast (<400 fs) photogeneration of mobile charge carriers and reveals a transient carrier mobility that increases as the temperature decreases from 300 K down to 10 K, indicative of bandlike transport over subpicosecond time scales. A wavelength-independent photoconductive signal is observed. The transient photoconductivity in the thin-film samples exhibits a single-exponential decay, whereas a power-law decay is seen in single-crystal samples.
AB - We observe bandlike transport in pentacene and functionalized pentacene thin films using time-resolved terahertz pulse spectroscopy. The measured transient photoconductivity exhibits fast (<400 fs) photogeneration of mobile charge carriers and reveals a transient carrier mobility that increases as the temperature decreases from 300 K down to 10 K, indicative of bandlike transport over subpicosecond time scales. A wavelength-independent photoconductive signal is observed. The transient photoconductivity in the thin-film samples exhibits a single-exponential decay, whereas a power-law decay is seen in single-crystal samples.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.035204
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.035204
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:15544374610
SN - 1098-0121
VL - 71
JO - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
JF - Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 035204
ER -