The electronic structure of rubrene single crystals was studied by angle-resolved ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy. A clear energy dispersion of the highest occupied molecular orbital-derived band was observed, and the dispersion width was found to be 0.4 eV along the well-stacked direction. The effective mass of the holes was estimated to be 0.65(+/-0.1)m0. The present results suggest that the carrier conduction mechanism in rubrene single crystals can be described within the framework of band transport.

The electronic states of single crystalline (SC) rubrene were experimentally observed by photoelectron yield spectroscopy without the sample charging problem. The ionization energy (Is) in the SC phase was determined to be 4.85(±0.05) eV, which is reduced by 0.45 eV compared to that of the amorphous film. The changes in the electronic states during photo-oxidation reaction and under ambient air were also observed directly to reveal the further reduction in Is, which can be attributed to the generation of polar oxide molecules and reversible physisorption of H2O, respectively.

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The valence band structure of rubrene single crystals was experimentally determined by high-resolution angle-resolved and excitation-energy-dependent photoelectron spectroscopy at room temperature. The energy position of the peak derived from the highest occupied molecular orbital did not depend on the excitation energy, reflecting an absence of energy dispersion along the surface normal direction. A two-dimensional valence band dispersion relation over the surface Brillouin zone obtained by angle-resolved photoemission to three critical points was reproduced excellently by a two-dimensional tight binding approximation. Highly anisotropic values of intermolecular transfer integrals to four adjacent molecules were obtained from the present results.