Electrical properties of highly ordered and amorphous thin films of pentacene doped with iodine

Abstract

Studies on electrical properties of highly ordered and amorphous thin films of pentacene (PEN) doped with iodine have been made. Highly ordered film heavily doped with iodine (PEN1I2.2) showed electrical conductivity of 150 Ω−1 cm−1 with a hole mobility of 0.2 to 1 cm2 V−1 s−1 at room temperature. Metallic temperature dependence of the conductivity of the film from 240 to 4 K was observed as the first metallic transport phenomenon ever noted in an acenic compound. In contrast, amorphous film of PEN doped with iodine showed a conductivity of 10−3 Ω−1 cm−1 with an estimated hole mobility of 2×10−5 cm2 V−1 s−1 and semiconductive transport. These results revealed that the electrical properties of PEN thin films are strongly correlated with the degree of molecular orientation.