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The electronic structure evolution of interfaces of fullerene (C60) with copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and on native silicon oxide has been investigated with ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy and inverse photoemission spectroscopy. The LUMO edge of C60 was found to be pinned at the interface with CuPc on SiO2. A substantial difference in the electron affinity of CuPc on the two substrates was observed as the orientation of CuPc is lying flat on HOPG and standing up on SiO2. The ionization potential and electron affinity of C60 were not affected by the orientation of CuPc due to the spherical symmetry of C60 molecules. We observed band bending in C60 on the standing-up orientation of CuPc molecules, while the energy levels of C60 on the flat-lying orientation of CuPc molecules were observed to be flat. The observation points to a dependence of photoexcited charge transfer on the relative molecular orientation at the interface.
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The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMR-1006098.
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Wang, C., Turinske, A.J. & Gao, Y. Orientation-dependent ionization potential of CuPc and energy level alignment at C60/CuPc interface. Appl. Phys. B 113, 361–365 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-013-5498-y
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