Avner Haran

Electron transmission through band structure in organized organic thin films

Direct evidence for the electronic band structure of thin organized organic layers is presented. The experimental results indicate that the electron-organic film system has to be described in quantum mechanical terms and that classical concepts fail. Quantum mechanical simulations on a generic system are also presented. They indicate that this type of simulation provides insight into the system studied experimentally.

Temperature dependence of electron transmission through organized organic thin films

The temperature dependence of electron transmission through various organized organic thin films (OOTFs) was investigated. For most systems a strong dependence of the transmission efficiency on temperature was observed, even for a relatively small temperature range. The well defined structure of the OOTFs and the monitoring of the angular dependence of both the initial and the final velocities of photoelectrons were used to reveal the mechanism behind the temperature effect and further elucidate the transmission mechanism. A simple model, which assumes that the electron transmission yield is much higher along the organic chains than in any other direction, was able to reproduce the experimental observations. We find that the photoelectron transmission yield through OOTFs is extremely sensitive to the structural order in the film.