skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Boost the electron mobility of solution-grown organic single crystals via reducing the amount of polar solvent residues

Journal Article · · Materials Horizons
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/C5MH00190K· OSTI ID:1228855
 [1];  [2];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [1];  [1]
  1. Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China)
  2. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  3. Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China); Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  4. The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin (China)

Enhancing electron transport to match with the development in hole transport is critical for organic electronics in the future. As electron motion is susceptible to extrinsic factors, seeking these factors and avoiding their negative effects have become the central challenge. Here, the existence of polar solvent residues in solution-grown single-crystals of 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)-5,7,12,14-tetraazapentacene is identified as a factor detrimental to electron motion. Field-effect transistors of the crystals exhibit electron mobility boosted by about 60% after the residues are removed. The average electron mobility reaches up to 8.0 ± 2.2 cm2 V–1 s–1 with a highest value of 13.3 cm2 V–1 s–1; these results are significantly higher than those obtained previously for the same molecule (1.0–5.0 cm2 V–1 s–1). Furthermore, the achieved mobility is also higher than the maximum reported electron mobility for organic materials (11 cm2 V–1 s–1). As a result, this work should greatly accelerate the advancement of organic electron-transporting materials.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC00112704
OSTI ID:
1228855
Report Number(s):
BNL-108584-2015-JA; MHAOAL; KC0403020
Journal Information:
Materials Horizons, Vol. 119, Issue 44; ISSN 2051-6347
Publisher:
Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 61 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

References (60)

Very high-mobility organic single-crystal transistors with in-crystal conduction channels journal March 2007
Correlating Carrier Type with Frontier Molecular Orbital Energy Levels in Organic Thin Film Transistors of Functionalized Acene Derivatives journal April 2009
Stability of n-type doped conducting polymers and consequences for polymeric microelectronic devices journal February 1997
High performance n-channel organic field-effect transistors and ring oscillators based on C60 fullerene films journal November 2006
Interface-Controlled, High-Mobility Organic Transistors journal March 2007
Self-Assembled Monolayers of Cyclohexyl-Terminated Phosphonic Acids as a General Dielectric Surface for High-Performance Organic Thin-Film Transistors journal September 2014
Ultra-high mobility transparent organic thin film transistors grown by an off-centre spin-coating method journal January 2014
High Mobility, Air Stable, Organic Single Crystal Transistors of an n-Type Diperylene Bisimide journal April 2012
Solution-Processible Highly Conducting Fullerenes journal March 2013
Thin-Film Morphology Control in Naphthalene-Diimide-Based Semiconductors: High Mobility n-Type Semiconductor for Organic Thin-Film Transistors journal December 2008
Low-Voltage Organic Field Effect Transistors with a 2-Tridecyl[1]benzothieno[3,2- b ][1]benzothiophene Semiconductor Layer journal September 2012
A Universal Method to Produce Low-Work Function Electrodes for Organic Electronics journal April 2012
General observation of n-type field-effect behaviour in organic semiconductors journal March 2005
Critical Role of Alkyl Chain Branching of Organic Semiconductors in Enabling Solution-Processed N-Channel Organic Thin-Film Transistors with Mobility of up to 3.50 cm 2 V –1 s –1 journal January 2013
A Thienoisoindigo-Naphthalene Polymer with Ultrahigh Mobility of 14.4 cm 2 /V·s That Substantially Exceeds Benchmark Values for Amorphous Silicon Semiconductors journal June 2014
Self-Assembled Monolayers of Phosphonic Acids with Enhanced Surface Energy for High-Performance Solution-Processed N-Channel Organic Thin-Film Transistors journal May 2013
Solution-Grown Organic Single-Crystalline Donor-Acceptor Heterojunctions for Photovoltaics journal November 2014
Utilizing Carbon Nanotube Electrodes to Improve Charge Injection and Transport in Bis(trifluoromethyl)-dimethyl-rubrene Ambipolar Single Crystal Transistors journal October 2013
n-Type Organic Semiconductors in Organic Electronics journal August 2010
Intrinsic Charge Transport on the Surface of Organic Semiconductors journal August 2004
Ambipolar organic field-effect transistors based on rubrene single crystals journal January 2006
An equal-opportunity conductor journal October 2003
Large-scale complementary integrated circuits based on organic transistors journal February 2000
Thin film field-effect transistors of 2,6-diphenyl anthracene (DPA) journal January 2015
Ambipolar charge transport of TIPS-pentacene single-crystals grown from non-polar solvents journal January 2015
Solution coating of large-area organic semiconductor thin films with aligned single-crystalline domains journal June 2013
25th Anniversary Article: Organic Field-Effect Transistors: The Path Beyond Amorphous Silicon journal January 2014
A polarized response journal December 2006
General Strategy for Self-Assembly of Highly Oriented Nanocrystalline Semiconducting Polymers with High Mobility journal April 2014
Low-k Insulators as the Choice of Dielectrics in Organic Field-Effect Transistors journal March 2003
A BDOPV-Based Donor-Acceptor Polymer for High-Performance n-Type and Oxygen-Doped Ambipolar Field-Effect Transistors journal August 2013
Concerning the role of dipolar disorder on charge transport in molecularly doped polymers journal October 1991
Boosting the Ambipolar Performance of Solution-Processable Polymer Semiconductors via Hybrid Side-Chain Engineering journal June 2013
A stable solution-processed polymer semiconductor with record high-mobility for printed transistors journal October 2012
Electron and Ambipolar Transport in Organic Field-Effect Transistors journal April 2007
Tunable Fröhlich polarons in organic single-crystal transistors journal November 2006
Solution-Processed Zinc Oxide as High-Performance Air-Stable Electron Injector in Organic Ambipolar Light-Emitting Field-Effect Transistors journal August 2010
Inkjet printing of single-crystal films journal July 2011
Single crystal n-channel field effect transistors from solution-processed silylethynylated tetraazapentacene journal January 2011
Organic electroluminescent diodes journal September 1987
Investigation of Structure–Property Relationships in Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Polymer Semiconductors via Side-Chain Engineering journal February 2015
Large-scale fabrication of field-effect transistors based on solution-grown organic single crystals journal June 2015
Functionalized Pentacene:  Improved Electronic Properties from Control of Solid-State Order journal September 2001
Two‐layer organic photovoltaic cell journal January 1986
Solution-grown aligned C60 single-crystals for field-effect transistors journal January 2014
Doped organic transistors operating in the inversion and depletion regime journal November 2013
High Mobility N-Type Transistors Based on Solution-Sheared Doped 6,13-Bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)pentacene Thin Films journal July 2013
25th Anniversary Article: Key Points for High-Mobility Organic Field-Effect Transistors journal September 2013
25th Anniversary Article: Recent Advances in n-Type and Ambipolar Organic Field-Effect Transistors journal August 2013
Organic single crystals: Addressing the fundamentals of organic electronics journal January 2013
Soluble and Stable N-Heteropentacenes with High Field-Effect Mobility journal February 2011
Making Contacts to n-Type Organic Transistors Using Carbon Nanotube Arrays journal December 2010
Record High Hole Mobility in Polymer Semiconductors via Side-Chain Engineering journal September 2013
High-Mobility Field-Effect Transistors from Large-Area Solution-Grown Aligned C60 Single Crystals journal January 2012
Band-Like Electron Transport in Organic Transistors and Implication of the Molecular Structure for Performance Optimization journal December 2011
Tuning charge transport in solution-sheared organic semiconductors using lattice strain journal December 2011
Single-crystal field-effect transistors of new Cl2-NDI polymorph processed by sublimation in air journal January 2015
Monolithic Complementary Inverters Based on Organic Single Crystals journal August 2010
Elastomeric Transistor Stamps: Reversible Probing of Charge Transport in Organic Crystals journal March 2004
Integrated Materials Design of Organic Semiconductors for Field-Effect Transistors journal April 2013

Cited By (19)

Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals for Electronics and Photonics journal July 2018
Halogenated Tetraazapentacenes with Electron Mobility as High as 27.8 cm 2 V −1 s −1 in Solution-Processed n-Channel Organic Thin-Film Transistors journal July 2018
4, 5, 9, 10-Pyrene Diimides: A Family of Aromatic Diimides Exhibiting High Electron Mobility and Two-Photon Excited Emission journal January 2018
Theoretical study of synergetic effect between halogenation and pyrazine substitutions on transport properties of silylethynylated pentacene journal January 2019
Electron transport at the interface of organic semiconductors and hydroxyl-containing dielectrics journal January 2018
Non-Metal-Heteroatom-Doped Carbon Dots: Synthesis and Properties journal November 2018
Modification of acenes for n-channel OFET materials journal January 2018
Das Aufkommen der organischen Einkristallelektronik journal November 2019
Trends in molecular design strategies for ambient stable n-channel organic field effect transistors journal January 2017
4,5,9,10-Pyrene Diimides: A Family of Aromatic Diimides Exhibiting High Electron Mobility and Two-Photon Excited Emission journal September 2017
Dielectric Selection for Solution‐Processed High‐Mobility TIPS‐Pentacene Microwire Field‐Effect Transistors journal April 2019
Electron Mobility Exceeding 10 cm 2 V −1 s −1 and Band-Like Charge Transport in Solution-Processed n-Channel Organic Thin-Film Transistors journal May 2016
Thioether- and sulfone-functionalized dibenzopentalenes as n-channel semiconductors for organic field-effect transistors journal January 2018
Recent Progress in the Development of Printed Thin-Film Transistors and Circuits with High-Resolution Printing Technology journal November 2016
4,5,9,10-Pyrene Diimides: A Family of Aromatic Diimides Exhibiting High Electron Mobility and Two-Photon Excited Emission journal September 2017
The Emergence of Organic Single‐Crystal Electronics journal January 2020
Controlled Growth of Large-Area Aligned Single-Crystalline Organic Nanoribbon Arrays for Transistors and Light-Emitting Diodes Driving journal August 2017
N-Type 2D Organic Single Crystals for High-Performance Organic Field-Effect Transistors and Near-Infrared Phototransistors journal March 2018
Optically Tunable Field Effect Transistors with Conjugated Polymer Entailing Azobenzene Groups in the Side Chains journal February 2019

Similar Records

Effect of Aromatic Solvents Residuals on Electron Mobility of Organic Single Crystals
Journal Article · Wed Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Advanced Electronic Materials · OSTI ID:1228855

Properties of zinc oxide films grown on sapphire substrates using high-temperature H{sub 2}O generated by a catalytic reaction on platinum nanoparticles
Journal Article · Sat Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014 · Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology. A, Vacuum, Surfaces and Films · OSTI ID:1228855

Electric Field Tuning Molecular Packing and Electrical Properties of Solution-Shearing Coated Organic Semiconducting Thin Films
Journal Article · Tue Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Advanced Functional Materials · OSTI ID:1228855