Title
The effect of single atom replacement on organic thin film transistors: Case of thieno[3,2-b] pyrrole vs. furo[3,2-b] pyrrole
Date Issued
01 January 2018
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Bulumulla C.
Gunawardhana R.
Yoo S.H.
Mills C.R.
Kularatne R.N.
Jackson T.N.
Biewer M.C.
Stefan M.C.
Publisher(s)
Royal Society of Chemistry
Abstract
Despite polypyrrole having higher conductivities compared to polythiophenes, pyrrole based materials have garnered less attention in the organic electronics community due to their instability in air. Construction of stable pyrrolic units could be achieved by fusing relatively unstable pyrrole with stable aromatic rings. In this report, we discuss and compare the organic field-effect transistor performances of the smallest S,N-heteroacene and O,N-heteroacene, thieno[3,2-b]pyrrole and furo[3,2-b]pyrrole, respectively, in donor-acceptor-donor type organic semiconducting small molecules. Since both building blocks are highly electron-rich, thiophene flanked 5,6-difluorobenzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole is employed as a central electron-withdrawing unit. The small molecule containing thieno[3,2-b]pyrrole exhibit moderate hole mobilities (10-3 cm2 V-1 s-1) irrespective of the annealing temperature. In contrast, the small molecule bearing furo[3,2-b]pyrrole is completely inactive in field-effect transistors. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report to compare the smallest units of S,N and O,N-heteroacenes for organic field-effect transistors.
Start page
10050
End page
10058
Volume
6
Issue
37
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85054154657
Source
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
ISSN of the container
20507534
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