Formation of an interphase layer during deposition of cobalt onto tetraphenylporphyrin: a hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (HAXPES) study

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Publication Date 2016-10-17
DOI 10.1039/C6CP05894A
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Min Chen, Han Zhou, Benedikt P. Klein, Malte Zugermeier, Claudio K. Krug, Hans-Jörg Drescher, Mihaela Gorgoi, Martin Schmid, J. Michael Gottfried


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Abstract

The interface formation upon vapor deposition of a metal onto a molecular organic semiconductor was studied using a well-defined complexation reaction between a metal and a porphyrin. Specifically, metallic cobalt (Co) was vapor deposited onto a thin film of 2H-tetraphenylporphyrin (2HTPP) at room temperature. The resulting interface was probed with Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HAXPES) using photon energies between 2 and 6 keV to obtain a detailed depth profile of the chemical composition. Characteristic changes in the N 1s core level signals reveal the formation of a cobalt tetraphenylporphyrin (CoTPP) layer between the Co and 2HTPP layers. Assuming an abrupt interface between CoTPP and 2HTPP (layer-by-layer model), analysis of the XPS data results in a thickness of the CoTPP reaction layer of 1.6 nm. However, a more advanced numerical analysis allowed us to reconstruct details of the actual depth distribution of the CoTPP interphase layer: up to a depth of 1.5 nm, all 2HTPP molecules were converted into CoTPP. Beyond this depth, the CoTPP concentration decreases sharply within 0.15 nm to zero.

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