Evidence for spin injection and transport in solution-processed TIPS-pentacene at room temperature

S. Mooser; J. F. K. Cooper; K. K. Banger; J. Wunderlich; H. Sirringhaus

doi:10.1117/12.929257

9 October 2012 Evidence for spin injection and transport in solution-processed TIPS-pentacene at room temperature

S. Mooser, J. F. K. Cooper, K. K. Banger, J. Wunderlich, H. Sirringhaus

Proceedings Volume 8461, Spintronics V; 84611J (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.929257
Event: SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Recently, there has been growing interest in the field of organic spintronics, where the research on organic semiconductors (OSCs) has extended from the complex aspects of charge carrier transport to the study of the spin transport properties of those anisotropic and partly localized systems.¹ Furthermore, solution-processed OSCs are not only interesting due to their technological applications, but it has recently been shown in 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)-pentacene (TIPS-pentacene) thin film transistors that they can exhibit a negative temperature coefficient of the mobility due to localized transport limited by thermal lattice fluctuations.² Here, spin injection and transport in solution-processed TIPS-pentacene are investigated exploiting vertical CoPt/TIPSpentacene/AlO_x/Co spin valve architectures.³ The antiparallel magnetization state of the relative orientation of CoPt and Co is achieved due to their different coercive fields. A spin valve effect is detected from T = 175 K up to room temperature, where the resistance of the device is lower for the antiparallel magnetization state. The first observation of the scaling of the magnetoresistance (MR) with the bulk mobility of the OSC as a function of temperature, together with the dependence of the MR on the interlayer thickness, clearly indicates spin injection and transport in TIPS-pentacene. From OSC-spacer thickness-dependent MR measurements, a spin relaxation length of TIPS-pentacene of (24±6) nm and a spin relaxation time of approximately 3.5 μs at room temperature are estimated, taking the measured bulk mobility of holes into account.

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S. Mooser, J. F. K. Cooper, K. K. Banger, J. Wunderlich, and H. Sirringhaus "Evidence for spin injection and transport in solution-processed TIPS-pentacene at room temperature", Proc. SPIE 8461, Spintronics V, 84611J (9 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.929257

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