Solution-Processable Multifused Thiophene Small Molecules and Conjugated Polymer Semiconducting Blend for Organic Field Effect Transistor Application

Shakil N. Afraj, Guan Yu He, Chih Yu Lin, Arulmozhi Velusamy, Chu Yun Huang, Po Shen Lin, Sureshraju Vegiraju, Ping Yu Huang, Jen Shyang Ni, Shueh Lin Yau, Shih Huang Tung, Takeo Minari, Cheng Liang Liu, Ming Chou Chen

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Abstract

Three new solution-processable organic semiconductors (1–3) are synthesized and characterized for p-type organic field effect transistors (OFETs). The backbone of these small molecules is modified by expanding the central core conjugation from thienothiophene (TT) to dithienothiophene (DTT) and tetrathienoacene (TTA), which are end-capped with soluble β-substituted alkyl chains dithienothiophenes (DTTR) to generate DTTR-TT (1), DTTR-DTT (2), and DTTR-TTA (3). The highest mobility of 0.016 cm2 V−1 s−1 is achieved using solution-sheared DTTR-TTA film due to the extended conjugated TTA core, which enhances the intermolecular interaction and generates an efficient percolation for the OFET channel. Solution blending of crystalline DTTR-TT small molecules with oriented-packing polymer dithienothiophene-thioalkylbithiophene (PDTT-SBT) polymer leads to significantly enhanced mobilities from 0.0009 up to 0.22 cm2 V−1 s−1, occurring at an optimized 30% DTTR-TT composition in the blend. Hole mobility of 30% DTTR-TT blend is 0.22 cm2 V−1 s−1 which is higher than pristine small molecule DTTR-TT (0.0009 cm2 V−1 s−1) and polymer PDTT-SBT (0.067 cm2 V−1 s−1), respectively. An efficient strategy to enhance the mobility of small molecule DTTR-TT by blending with easily synthesizable PDTT-SBT polymer is reported.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2001028
JournalAdvanced Materials Technologies
Volume6
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2021

Keywords

  • organic field effect transistors
  • organic semiconductors
  • polymer blend
  • soluble dithienothiophenes
  • solution process

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