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Effect of Bending on the Electrical Characteristics of Flexible Organic Single Crystal-based Field-effect Transistors
Published on: November 7, 2016
Solid-state organization of n-type carbazole-based semiconductors for organic thin-film transistors
Marta Reig1, Joaquim Puigdollers, Dolores Velasco
1Grup de Materials Orgànics, Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB), Departament de Química Inorgànica i Orgànica, Secció de Química Orgànica, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain. dvelasco@ub.edu.
Abstract:
The development of new organic semiconductors has been mainly led by the search for new π-conjugated cores, but recently the use of flexible side chains is attracting more and more attention to control the molecular packing and order in the solid state to improve the charge-transporting properties. In this work, the charge transport properties of a series of tricyanovinyl-substituted carbazole-based materials with different alkyl chain lengths have been investigated and correlated with the respective intermolecular interactions and molecular packings via X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies.
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