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Lei Zheng1,2, Zhengsheng Qin3, Zihe Liu4
1Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, School of Integrated Circuit, Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China.
Abstract:
High-mobility and color-tunable highly emissive organic semiconductors (OSCs) are highly promising for various optoelectronic device applications and novel structure-property relationship investigations. However, such OSCs have never been reported because of the great trade-off between mobility, emission color, and emission efficiency. Here, we report a novel strategy of molecular conformation-induced unique crystalline polymorphism to realize the high mobility and color-tunable high emission in a novel OSC, 2,7-di(anthracen-2-yl) naphthalene (2,7-DAN). Interestingly, 2,7-DAN has unique crystalline polymorphism, which has an almost identical packing motif but slightly different molecular conformation enabled by the small bond rotation angle variation between anthracene and naphthalene units. More remarkably, the subtle covalent bond rotation angle change leads to a big change in color emission (from blue to green) but does not significantly modify the mobility and emission efficiency. The carrier mobility of 2,7-DAN crystals can reach up to a reliable 17 cm2 V-1 s-1, which is rare for the reported high-mobility OSCs. Based on the unique phenomenon, high-performance light-emitting transistors with blue to green emission are simultaneously demonstrated in an OSC crystal. These results open a new way for designing emerging multifunctional organic semiconductors toward next-generation advanced molecular (atomic)-scale optoelectronics devices.
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