The four polymorphic modifications of the semiconductor dibenzo-tetrathiafulvalene

Data di pubblicazione: 1 Gen 2008

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Autori: Aldo Brillante, Ivano Bilotti, Raffaele Guido Della Valle, Elisabetta Venuti, Silvia Milita, Chiara Dionigi, F. Borgatti, Adina Nicoleta Lazar, Fabio Biscarini, Marta Mas‐Torrent, Neil S. Oxtoby, Núria Crivillers, Jaume Veciana, Concepció Rovira, Michael Leufgen, Georg Cornelius Schmidt, Laurens W. Molenkamp

The organic semiconductor dibenzotetrathiafulvalene (DB-TTF) presents, at ambient conditions, four polymorphic modifications. In addition to the already known monoclinic structure (α) with Z = 2, we have resolved by single crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) a second crystal structure (β), also monoclinic but with Z = 4. Two other polymorphic modifications (γ and δ) have been found by means of lattice phonon confocal Raman microscopy and XRD. In this paper we present a series of growth experiments, from vapour or from solution, in films and in the bulk phase, describing the variety of transformations which occur among the different phases and their mixing, also at a micrometric scale. Quasi harmonic lattice dynamics calculations satisfactorily reproduce the structures of the α and the β polymorphs and help the phonon assignment of polarized Raman spectra in single crystals.

Editore
Royal Society of Chemistry
Fonte
CrystEngComm
Volume
10
Fascicolo
12
Pagine
1899
Citazioni
69
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1ac006c85ffb9bcafec6bf10045747eb
Riferimenti
Volume: 10 Issue: 12 Pages: 1899-1909