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POLYMER CHEMISTRY
Volume 4, Issue 11, Pages 3187-3195Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c3py00325f
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- NSF [DMR-1035196]
- ONR [N00014-11-1-0317]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1035196] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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n-Type conjugated polymers based on naphthalene diimide (NDI) and various selenophene derivatives have been synthesized, characterized and evaluated as semiconductors for n-channel organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). The new poly(naphthalene diimides) (PNDIs) have weight average molecular weights of 12-107 kDa with a polydispersity of 1.1-2.6. These PNDIs combined a constant electron affinity of 3.9 eV with an optical band gap that varies from 1.7 eV in PNDISS to 1.4 eV in ePNDIBS due to intramolecular charge transfer. X-ray diffraction analysis of films of the polymers revealed a lamellar crystalline structure in which the lamellar interchain distance varied from 2.45 nm in PNDISS to 2.75 nm in PNDIBDS while the pi-stacking distance varied from 0.397 nm in PNDIBDS to 0.443 nm in PNDISS. Average field-effect electron mobility of 0.008 to 0.24 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) with high on/off current ratio (10(4) to 10(6)) was observed from the bottom gate/top contact n-channel OFETs. A 3.4-fold enhancement in electron mobility was observed in phenyl end-capped and high molecular weight ePNDIBS whereas such end-capping had no effect on the electron mobility in PNDISS and PNDIBDS.
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