Accessing surface Brillouin zone and band structure of picene single crystals

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Jun 1;108(22):226401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.226401. Epub 2012 May 29.

Abstract

We have experimentally revealed the band structure and the surface Brillouin zone of insulating picene single crystals (SCs), the mother organic system for a recently discovered aromatic superconductor, with ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy (UPS) and low-energy electron diffraction with a laser for photoconduction. A hole effective mass of 2.24m(0) and the hole mobility μ(h)≥9.0 cm(2)/V s (298 K) were deduced in the Γ-Y direction. We have further shown that some picene SCs did not show charging during UPS even without the laser, which indicates that pristine UPS works for high-quality organic SCs.