Metallic conduction at organic charge-transfer interfaces

Details Metallic conduction at organic charge-transfer interfaces Metallic conduction at organic charge-transfer interfaces

2008-10-02

arxiv.org/abs/0810.0361v1

Nature Materials 7, 574-580 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

21 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1038/nmat2205

The electronic properties of interfaces between two different solids can differ strikingly from those of the constituent materials. For instance, metallic conductivity, and even superconductivity, have been recently discovered at interfaces formed by insulating transition metal oxides. Here we investigate interfaces between crystals of conjugated organic molecules, which are large gap undoped semiconductors, i.e. essentially insulators. We find that highly conducting interfaces can be realized with resistivity ranging from 1 to 30 kOhm square, and that, for the best samples, the temperature dependence of the conductivity is metallic. The observed electrical conduction originates from a large transfer of charge between the two crystals that takes place at the interface, on a molecular scale. As the interface assembly process is simple and can be applied to crystals of virtually any conjugated molecule, the conducting interfaces described here represent the first examples of a new class of electronic systems.

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