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Organic‐organic heteroepitaxy: facts, concepts and perspectives
Author(s) -
Moret M.,
Borghesi A.,
Campione M.,
Fumagalli E.,
Raimondo L.,
Sassella A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
crystal research and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.377
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1521-4079
pISSN - 0232-1300
DOI - 10.1002/crat.201000581
Subject(s) - heterojunction , organic semiconductor , epitaxy , lattice (music) , interpretation (philosophy) , physical system , chemical physics , atom (system on chip) , nanotechnology , chemistry , materials science , computer science , optoelectronics , physics , quantum mechanics , layer (electronics) , acoustics , embedded system , programming language
Organic‐organic heteroepitaxy can represent the winning technique for growing crystalline and oriented heterostructures of organic semiconductors. However, a sound physical interpretation of mechanisms that control epitaxy is still missing for these low symmetry molecular systems, generally not obeying the usual lattice matching rules for inorganic systems. We discuss here a couple of paradigmatic examples of organic‐organic heteroepitaxy suggesting a possible physical rationale for the formation of the heterostructure interfaces as it arises from experimental characterization and computer modeling with atom‐atom potential simulations. (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)