Effect of Extensional Flow on the Evaporative Assembly of a Donor–Acceptor Semiconducting Polymer

Nikzad, Shayla; Wu, Hung-Chin; Wang, Ging-Ji Nathan; Yan, Hongping; Schneider, Sebastian A.; Toney, Michael F.; Bao, Zhenan

doi:10.1021/acsaelm.9b00576

Title: Effect of Extensional Flow on the Evaporative Assembly of a Donor–Acceptor Semiconducting Polymer

Journal Article · Wed Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · ACS Applied Electronic Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.9b00576· OSTI ID:1985485

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Stanford University, CA (United States)
Stanford University, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)

The ability to deposit polymer semiconductors (PSCs) over a large area at near-ambient conditions makes them exciting candidates for low-cost, large-area electronic applications. Given the sensitivity of the charge carrier mobility in PSCs to the nature of their deposition from solution, a mechanistic understanding of deposition processes is essential for enhancing and controlling a PSC’s electrical performance. Polymer chain alignment has been largely posited as a strategy for improving the electrical performance of PSCs. Herein, the ability of a micropillar shearing blade to align polymer chains of poly(2,5-bis(2-octyldodecyl)-3,6-di(thiophen-2-yl)diketopyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-dione-alt-thieno[3,2-b]thiophen) (DPP-TT) during solution shearing by increasing extensional flow is investigated. A sufficiently strong extensional flow field is found to be capable of aligning polymer chains and inducing crystallization. Such an alignment of crystallite domains is observed to be correlated to increased charge carrier mobility, but the effect of alignment on charge transport is dependent on deposition conditions. Furthermore, the ability of polymer chains to be aligned by using extensional flow, and the effect of alignment on subsequent charge transport, is highly dependent on polymer chain length due to changes in both solution state properties and charge transport mechanisms.

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Research Organization:: Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division (MSE); National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0016523; ECCS-1542152

OSTI ID:: 1985485

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1782828

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Electronic Materials, Vol. 1, Issue 11; ISSN 2637-6113

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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