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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 68, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.68.085301
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Electronic polarization is evaluated in pentacene crystals and in thin films on a metallic substrate using a self-consistent method for computing charge redistribution in nonoverlapping molecules. The optical dielectric constant and its principal axes are reported for a neutral crystal. The polarization energies P+ and P- of a cation and anion at infinite separation are found for both molecules in the crystal's unit cell in the bulk, at the surface, and at the organic-metal interface of a film of N molecular layers. We find that a single pentacene layer with herring-bone packing provides a screening environment approaching the bulk. The polarization contribution to the transport gap P=P++P-, which is 2.01 eV in the bulk, decreases and increases by only similar to10% at surfaces and interfaces, respectively. We also compute the polarization energy of charge-transfer states with fixed separation between anion and cation, and compare to electroabsorption data and to submolecular calculations. Electronic polarization of similar to1 eV per charge has a major role for transport in organic molecular systems with limited overlap.
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