Naphthalene flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole based organic semiconductors for high performance organic field effect transistors

Here, we design and synthesize three new diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) derivatives with naphthalene, possessing large-scaled p-delocalized electronic structure, as the flanking groups and both linear (n-decyl and n-dodecyl) and branched (2-hexyldecyl)alkyl chains as substitutions as active layer for hi...

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Main Authors: Liu, Q., Sun, H., Blaikie, C., Caporale, C., Manzhos, S., Feron, K., Macleod, J., Massi, Massimiliano, Bottle, S., Bell, J., Noh, Y., Sonar, P.
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Published: Royal Society of Chemistry 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69666
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author Liu, Q.
Sun, H.
Blaikie, C.
Caporale, C.
Manzhos, S.
Feron, K.
Macleod, J.
Massi, Massimiliano
Bottle, S.
Bell, J.
Noh, Y.
Sonar, P.
author_facet Liu, Q.
Sun, H.
Blaikie, C.
Caporale, C.
Manzhos, S.
Feron, K.
Macleod, J.
Massi, Massimiliano
Bottle, S.
Bell, J.
Noh, Y.
Sonar, P.
author_sort Liu, Q.
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description Here, we design and synthesize three new diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) derivatives with naphthalene, possessing large-scaled p-delocalized electronic structure, as the flanking groups and both linear (n-decyl and n-dodecyl) and branched (2-hexyldecyl)alkyl chains as substitutions as active layer for high performance organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). The thermal, photophysical properties, energy levels and solid state molecular stacking have been studied in detail. All the materials show excellent thermal stability with a decomposition temperature of 400 °C, high semi-crystallinity feature, suitable HOMO & LUMO energy levels, and varying crystalline domain sizes in thin films. Bottom-contact/top-gate transistor devices are thus fabricated to investigate the mobility. Encouragingly, all compounds function well in OFET devices and show significant potential as p-type semiconducting materials. The monomer with the n-decyl alkyl chain (D-DPPN) shows the highest mobility of 0.019 cm2V-1s-1, with the Ion/Ioffratio reaching 106. We for the first time synthesize naphthalene flanked DPP monomers and achieve high mobility in OFET devices when using these monomers without any further functionalization as semiconductors directly. The primary result that high mobility is observed for monomers only opens a new way for further DPP application and provides more possibilities for constructing high performance polymeric and small molecular semiconductors based on this new DPP dye.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-696662019-06-17T01:10:32Z Naphthalene flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole based organic semiconductors for high performance organic field effect transistors Liu, Q. Sun, H. Blaikie, C. Caporale, C. Manzhos, S. Feron, K. Macleod, J. Massi, Massimiliano Bottle, S. Bell, J. Noh, Y. Sonar, P. Here, we design and synthesize three new diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) derivatives with naphthalene, possessing large-scaled p-delocalized electronic structure, as the flanking groups and both linear (n-decyl and n-dodecyl) and branched (2-hexyldecyl)alkyl chains as substitutions as active layer for high performance organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). The thermal, photophysical properties, energy levels and solid state molecular stacking have been studied in detail. All the materials show excellent thermal stability with a decomposition temperature of 400 °C, high semi-crystallinity feature, suitable HOMO & LUMO energy levels, and varying crystalline domain sizes in thin films. Bottom-contact/top-gate transistor devices are thus fabricated to investigate the mobility. Encouragingly, all compounds function well in OFET devices and show significant potential as p-type semiconducting materials. The monomer with the n-decyl alkyl chain (D-DPPN) shows the highest mobility of 0.019 cm2V-1s-1, with the Ion/Ioffratio reaching 106. We for the first time synthesize naphthalene flanked DPP monomers and achieve high mobility in OFET devices when using these monomers without any further functionalization as semiconductors directly. The primary result that high mobility is observed for monomers only opens a new way for further DPP application and provides more possibilities for constructing high performance polymeric and small molecular semiconductors based on this new DPP dye. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69666 10.1039/c8nj01453a Royal Society of Chemistry fulltext
spellingShingle Liu, Q.
Sun, H.
Blaikie, C.
Caporale, C.
Manzhos, S.
Feron, K.
Macleod, J.
Massi, Massimiliano
Bottle, S.
Bell, J.
Noh, Y.
Sonar, P.
Naphthalene flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole based organic semiconductors for high performance organic field effect transistors
title Naphthalene flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole based organic semiconductors for high performance organic field effect transistors
title_full Naphthalene flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole based organic semiconductors for high performance organic field effect transistors
title_fullStr Naphthalene flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole based organic semiconductors for high performance organic field effect transistors
title_full_unstemmed Naphthalene flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole based organic semiconductors for high performance organic field effect transistors
title_short Naphthalene flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole based organic semiconductors for high performance organic field effect transistors
title_sort naphthalene flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole based organic semiconductors for high performance organic field effect transistors
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69666