Title
Fluorination of Donor-Acceptor Copolymer Active Layers Enhances Charge Mobilities in Thin-Film Transistors
Date Issued
17 October 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad del Estado de Pensilvania
Publisher(s)
American Chemical Society
Abstract
Several recent reports have demonstrated that fluorinated analogues of donor/acceptor copolymers surpass nonfluorinated counterparts in terms of performance in electronic devices. Using a copolymer series consisting of fluorinated, partially fluorinated, and nonfluorinated benzotriazole, we confirm that the addition of fluorine substituents beneficially impacts charge transport in polymer semiconductors. Transistor measurements demonstrated a factor of 5 increase in carrier mobilities with the degree of fluorination of the backbone. Furthermore, grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction data indicates progressively closer packing between the conjugated cores and an overall greater amount of π-stacking in the fluorinated materials. It is likely that attractive interactions between the electron-rich donor and fluorinated electron-deficient acceptor units induce very tightly stacking crystallites, which reduce the energetic barrier for charge hopping. In addition, a change in crystallite orientation was observed from primarily edge-on without fluorine substituents to mostly face-on with fluorinated benzotriazole.
Start page
1162
End page
1167
Volume
6
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85031698670
PubMed ID
Source
ACS Macro Letters
ISSN of the container
21611653
Source funding
U.S. Department of Energy
Sponsor(s)
This work was funded by the Center for Flexible Electronics at the Pennsylvania State University and the Dow Chemical Company. The Advanced Light Source is an Office of Science user facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
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