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A new thiophene substituted isoindigo based copolymer for high performance ambipolar transistors
Raja Shahid Ashraf1, Auke Jisk Kronemeijer, David Ian James
1Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK. r.ashraf@imperial.ac.uk
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 17, 2012
Abstract:
A novel thiophene substituted isoindigo and its copolymer with benzothiadiazole have been synthesized. The polymer with low lying LUMO energy levels exhibits excellent ambipolar behavior in field effect transistors with both hole and electron mobilities recorded over 0.1 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1).
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