Electrostatic Field Driven Alignment of Organic Oligomers on ZnO Surfaces

Details Electrostatic Field Driven Alignment of Organic Oligomers on ZnO Surfaces Electrostatic Field Driven Alignment of Organic Oligomers on ZnO Surfaces

2011-01-21

arxiv.org/abs/1101.4076v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 146401 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.146401

We study the physisorption of organic oligomers on the ZnO($10\bar{1}0$) surface using first-principles density-functional theory and non-empirical embedding methods. We find that both in-plane location and orientation of the molecules are completely determined by the coupling of their quadrupole moments to the periodic dipolar electric field present at the semiconductor surface. The adsorption is associated with the formation of a molecular dipole moment perpendicular to the surface, which bears an unexpected linear relation to the molecule-substrate interaction energy. Long oligomers such as sexiphenyl become well-aligned with stabilization energies of several 100 meV along rows of positive electric field, in full agreement with recent experiments. These findings define a new route towards the realization of highly-ordered self-assembled arrays of oligomers/polymers on ZnO($10\bar{1}0$) and similar surfaces.

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