Issue 36, 2015

High-performance polymer field-effect transistors fabricated with low-bandgap DPP-based semiconducting materials

Abstract

A series of new π-conjugated D–A copolymers PDMOTT-n (n = 118, 122, 320, and 420) containing a diketopyrrolopyrrole unit and a 3,6-dimethoxythieno[3,2-b]thiophene moiety was designed and synthesized, and their field-effect properties were characterized. The polymers PDMOTT-n have a low bandgap of 1.27 eV and exhibit a broad absorption. Solution-processed field-effect transistors based on these polymers were fabricated with a bottom-gate/bottom-contact configuration and demonstrated typical p-type charge transporting properties. Of these, PDMOTT-420 with the longest alkyl side chains and having the longest distance between the branching point of the alkyl side chain and π-conjugated backbone of the polymer, exhibited the best carrier transporting performance with a hole mobility of 2.01 cm2 V−1 s−1 and with an on/off current ratio of 104–105. The characterization results of grazing incidence X-ray diffraction and tapping-mode atomic force microscopy showed that the thin film of the polymer PDMOTT-420 forms larger grains and more useful nanofibrillar intercalated structures and owns shorter π–π stacking distance and better crystallization than those of another three polymers. These results could help us to better understand the structure–property relationship of polymer semiconductors and to design novel π-conjugated polymers for high-performance field-effect transistors.

Graphical abstract: High-performance polymer field-effect transistors fabricated with low-bandgap DPP-based semiconducting materials

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 May 2015
Accepted
04 Jul 2015
First published
16 Jul 2015

Polym. Chem., 2015,6, 6457-6464

High-performance polymer field-effect transistors fabricated with low-bandgap DPP-based semiconducting materials

Z. Mao, W. Zhang, J. Huang, K. Shi, D. Gao, Z. Chen and G. Yu, Polym. Chem., 2015, 6, 6457 DOI: 10.1039/C5PY00756A

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