Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages 6315-6324Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b20700
Keywords
organic field-effect transistor; organic monolayer; oligo(thiophene phenylene); grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction; organic single oystal; charge-carrier mobility
Funding
- Russian Science Foundation [18-12-00499]
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation [NSh-5698.2018.3]
- Russian Science Foundation [18-12-00499] Funding Source: Russian Science Foundation
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High structural quality of crystalline organic semiconductors is the basis of their superior electrical performance. Recent progress in quasi two-dimensional (2D) organic semiconductor films challenges bulk single crystals because both demonstrate competing charge-carrier mobilities. As the thinnest molecular semiconductors, monolayers offer numerous advantages such as unmatched flexibility and light transparency as well they are an excellent platform for sensing. Oligothiophene-based materials are among the most promising ones for light-emitting applications because of the combination of efficient luminescence and decent charge-carrier mobility. Here, we demonstrate single-crystal monolayers of unprecedented structural order grown from four alkyl-substituted thiophene and thiophene phenylene oligomers. The monolayer crystals with lateral dimensions up to 3 mm were grown from the solution on substrates with various surface energies and roughness by drop or spin-casting with subsequent slow solvent evaporation. Our data indicate that 2D crystallization resulting in single-crystal monolayers occurs at the receding gas-solution substrate contact line. The structural properties of the monolayers were studied by grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction/reflectivity, atomic force and differential interference contrast microscopies, and imaging spectroscopic ellipsometry. These highly ordered monolayers demonstrated an excellent performance in organic field-effect transistors approaching the best values reported for the thiophene or thiophene phenylene oligomers. Our findings pave the way for efficient monolayer organic electronics highlighting the high potential of simple solution-processing techniques for the growth of large-size single-crystal monolayers with excellent structural order and electrical performance competing against bulk single crystals.
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