Influence of intermolecular vibrations on the electronic coupling in organic semiconductors: the case of anthracene and perfluoropentacene

Nicolas G. Martinelli, Yoann Olivier, Stavros Athanasopoulos, Maricarmen Ruiz Delgado, Kathryn R. Pigg, Demétrio A. Da Silva Filho, Roei S. Sánchezcarrera, Elisabetta Venuti, Raffaele G. Delia Valle, Jean Luc Brédas, David Beljonne, Jérôme Cornil

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We have performed classical molecular dynamics simulations and quantum-chemical calculations on molecular crystals of anthracene and perfluoropentacene. Our goal is to characterize the amplitudes of the room-temperature molecular displacements and the corresponding thermal fluctuations in electronic transfer integrals, which constitute a key parameter for charge transport in organic semiconductors. Our calculations show that the thermal fluctuations lead to Gaussian-like distributions of the transfer integrals centered around the values obtained for the equilibrium crystal geometry. The calculated distributions have been plugged into Monte-Carlo simulations of hopping transport, which show that lattice vibrations impact charge transport properties to various degrees depending on the actual crystal structure

langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)2265-2273
Nombre de pages9
journalChemPhysChem
Volume10
Numéro de publication13
Les DOIs
Etat de la publicationPublié - 14 sept. 2009
Modification externeOui

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