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ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 44, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201804032
Keywords
chirality; diketopyrrolopyrroles; organic electronics; single-crystal field-effect transistors
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- Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation
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Many organic semiconductors (OSCs) inherit chiral alkyl chains, which ensure the desirable high solubility for solution-processing but may also lead to disorder, inhomogeneous film-formation, as well as interfacial defects due to the presence of mixtures of stereoisomers or diastereomers, which impair their peak performance. Here, single-crystal field-effect transistors (SCFETs) of a diketopyrrolopyrrole-based organic semiconductor with chiral 2-ethylhexyl substituents by sublimation in air and organic ribbon mask method are fabricated. Devices of the mesomer (R/S), both enantiomers (R/R, S/S), as well as mixtures of these three stereoisomers measured under ambient conditions exhibit all appreciable p-channel charge carrier mobilities of > 0.1 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) despite different packing arrangement in the R/S, R/R (or S/S), and racemate crystal structures. These results suggest a surprising tolerance for isomeric impurities. The highest literature-reported p-channel mobility so far for a diketopyrrolopyrrole-based OSC of 3.4 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) (I-on/I-off of 1 x 10(6)) is, however, only obtained for the pure R/S mesomer, illustrating the inherent potential of stereochemical purity. These results on SCFETs are further substantiated by studies on organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) of pure and mixed thin films of the different stereoisomers.
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