Abstract
The electronic states of tetrathiafulvalene (TTF: TTF = C6H4S4) molecule in organic ferroelectric TTF-p-bromanil (TTF-BA: BA = C6Br4O2) and TTF crystals have been investigated by x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) measurement at S K-edge. We elucidated that the peak structure at 2470.5 eV directly reflects the existence of hole in the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) state of the TTF molecule in TTF-BA; that is consistent with the ionic TTF molecule (TTF+). The XAS of TTF-BA was evaluated on the basis of first-principles calculations, and the calculated spectra reproduce well the shape of experimental spectrum and the peak energy of the HOMO state.
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