Crystal Orientation Imaging of Organic Monolayer Islands by Polarized Light Microscopy

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Yoshiaki Hattori, Masatoshi Kitamura

Abstract

The initial stage of organic semiconductor film formation greatly affects the properties of films, which are used in organic devices including thin-film transistors and light-emitting diodes. Organic monolayer islands that are formed on a suitable substrate can be observed with a conventional optical microscope. Furthermore, the use of a polarized microscope allows the determination of the refractive index and crystal orientation of islands. Here, we report organic monolayer islands of 2,9-diphenyl-dinaphtho[2,3-b:2',3'-f]thieno[3,2-b]thiophene (DPh-DNTT) deposited on a Si substrate with thermally grown SiO2 to investigate the crystal orientation of islands by polarized light microscopy. The observation of DPh-DNTT islands under polarized quasi-monochromatic light reveals that reflection intensity depends on both the crystal orientation and irradiation wavelength. A comparison between experimental and calculated reflection intensities provides an estimate of an anisotropic complex refractive index in the plane. The crossed-polarized microscopy image of a SiO2/Si substrate with DPh-DNTT islands shows that the contrast between the islands and SiO2 surface is sensitive to the angle between the polarizer and analyzer and depends on...Continue Reading

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