Tetracene thin films grown by organic molecular beam deposition under a static magnetic field.
The diamagnetic response of tetracene is exploited to increase the in-plane orientation of thin films grown by organic molecular beam deposition, while applying a magnetic field of 0.2 T parallel to the surface of the silica and potassium hydrogen phthalate substrates. The combined spectroscopic analysis of the films in the UV/visible region and morphological investigation of their surface performed by atomic force microscopy demonstrate a substantial increment of the film order when the magnetic field is applied along the c axis of potassium hydrogen phthalate, in agreement with the anisotropic magnetic susceptibility of tetracene.
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Department of Materials Science and CNISM, Università di Milano Bicocca, Via Cozzi 53, I-20125 Milano, Italy. marcello.campione@mater.unimib.it
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