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Zhengran He1, Jihua Chen2, Dawen Li1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Materials for Information Technology, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA. dawenl@eng.ua.edu.
Abstract:
Solution-crystallizable small-molecule organic semiconductors, such as 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)pentacene (TIPS pentacene), 5,11-bis(triethylgermylethynyl)anthradithiophene (diF-TEG-ADT), 2,7-dioctyl[1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene (C8-BTBT), and N,N'-1H,1H-perfluorobutyl dicyanoperylenecarboxydiimide (PDIF-CN2), demonstrate various practical advantages including high mobility, air stability and solution processibility. In this article, we review various polymer additive based approaches to control the crystal morphology and the resultant charge transport of some bench-mark, high performance, solution crystallizable, small-molecule organic semiconductors. The polymer additives are discussed under the categories of non-conjugated polymers and conjugated polymers. The approaches and structure-performance correlations that we discussed here may be applied far beyond the examples shown in this review and have important implications for high performance organic semiconductors in general.
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