Title
Directly patternable, highly conducting polymers for broad applications in organic electronics
Date Issued
30 March 2010
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Yoo J.
Lee K.
Garcia A.
Tarver J.
Baldwin K.
Sun Y.
Meng H.
Nguyen T.
Loo Y.
Princeton University
Abstract
Postdeposition solvent annealing of water-dispersible conducting polymers induces dramatic structural rearrangement and improves electrical conductivities by more than two orders of magnitude. We attain electrical conductivities inexcess of50 S/cmwhenpolyaniline films are exposed to dichloroacetic acid. Subjecting commercially available poly(ethylene dioxythiophene) to the same treatment yields a conductivity as high as 250 S/cm. This process has enabled the wide incorporation of conducting polymers in organic electronics; conducting polymers that are not typically processable cannow be deposited from solution and their conductivities subsequently enhancedtopractical levels viaa simpleandstraightforward solvent annealing process. The treated conducting polymers are thus promising alternatives for metals as source and drain electrodes in organic thin-film transistors as well as for transparent metal oxide conductors as anodesin organic solar cells and light-emitting diodes.
Start page
5712
End page
5717
Volume
107
Issue
13
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química
Ciencia de los polímeros
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-77950545210
Source
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN of the container
00278424
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