Comprehensive spectral decomposition analysis of gate modulation spectra measured in a pentacene organic field-effect transistor by Bayesian spectroscopy

Abstract

Using Bayesian spectroscopy, we performed spectral decomposition of gate modulation (GM) spectra measured in a pentacene organic field-effect transistor to understand comprehensively the optical nonlinear response due to GM and hole injection. Although GM spectra contain a variety of spectral components, by Bayesian spectroscopy, we can specify the role of each component in the nonlinear response by performing model selection that chooses the spectral components needed to explain the data without preconceptions. For a GM spectrum under positive GM, Bayesian spectroscopy shows that nonlinear responses by the change in polarizability dominate the GM spectrum among several types of Stark signals induced by the GM electric field, which is a physically valid conclusion. For GM spectra under negative GM where gate-induced carriers are injected, Bayesian spectroscopy succeeds in completely elucidating the spectral structure, which is composed of the two types of Stark signals due to changes in the polarizability and the dipole moment, bleaching, and gate-induced absorption signals. A pentacene film is known to have solid and isolated molecular phases, which may give different spectral responses. Therefore, we compared a model that treats these responses equally and a model that distinguishes them. Bayesian spectroscopy selects the latter models for all GM spectra, revealing statistically that nonlinear optical effects and hole injection effects are different in these phases.