Journal
ORGANIC ELECTRONICS
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 235-243Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2011.11.005
Keywords
Organic electronics; Field-effect transistors; Crystals; Crystalline thin films; Single-crystal devices; TIPS-pentacene
Funding
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
- NIH
- NSF DMR [DMR-0705687-002]
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Highly crystalline thin films of organic semiconductors processed from solution for electronic devices are difficult to achieve due to a slow and preferential three-dimensional growth of the crystals. Here we describe the development of a processing technique to induce a preferential two-dimensional crystalline growth of organic semiconductors by means of minimizing one dimension and confining the solution in two dimensions into a thin layer. The versatility of the process is demonstrated by processing small molecules (TIPS-pentacene and C-60) and a polymer (P3HT), all from solvents with a relatively low boiling point, to obtain crystalline thin films. The thin films show an improved in-plane packing of the molecules compared to films processed under similar conditions by spin coating, which is beneficial for the use in organic field-effect transistors. (C) 2011 Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
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