Issue 40, 2013

Growth of rylene diimide crystalline layers on aminoalkyl triethoxysilane-monolayers for organic field effect transistor applications

Abstract

Macroscopically aligned, crystalline layers are a key requirement for high-performance organic field effect transistors from small molecule organic semiconductors. We investigated the crystallization behavior of n-type semiconducting naphthalene and perylene diimides at the liquid/solid/air interface as a solvent meniscus – evaporation-induced – slowly moved along the surface of a monolayer functionalized Si/SiO2. Amine-terminated, triethoxysilane based functional polar monolayers enforce highly oriented crystallization of the respective rylene diimides at the three-phase border. The electron transporting properties of the resulting crystalline layers of rylene diimides were studied in bottom gate-top electrode field effect transistors, which were shown to be improved up to two orders of magnitude over those of solution casted films. Anisotropic effects expected for crystalline devices were also revealed, which corroborated with the macroscopically oriented crystalline planes observed by polarized optical microscopy.

Graphical abstract: Growth of rylene diimide crystalline layers on aminoalkyl triethoxysilane-monolayers for organic field effect transistor applications

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
16 Jun 2013
Accepted
23 Aug 2013
First published
23 Aug 2013

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013,1, 6661-6666

Growth of rylene diimide crystalline layers on aminoalkyl triethoxysilane-monolayers for organic field effect transistor applications

F. L. Geyer, A. Pun, D. Hanifi, U. H. F. Bunz and Y. Liu, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2013, 1, 6661 DOI: 10.1039/C3TC31162G

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