Modulating the Surface via Polymer Brush for High-Performance Inkjet-Printed Organic Thin-Film Transistors
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- Title
- Modulating the Surface via Polymer Brush for High-Performance Inkjet-Printed Organic Thin-Film Transistors
- Authors
- GE, FENG; WANG, XIAOHONG; ZHANG, YUNFENG; SONG, EUNJOO; ZHANG, GUOBING; LU, HONGBO; CHO, KIL WON; QIU, LONGZHEN
- Date Issued
- 2017-01
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Abstract
- A strategy is reported to control the morphologies of inkjet-printed small organic molecule semiconductor by modifying printed surfaces with polymer brushes. Polystyrene (PS) brushes with different chain lengths from 1.66 to 7.35 nm are grafted onto a dielectric surface via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization to form uniform, hydrophobic surfaces. Single droplets of 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene (TIPS-pentacene) are then inkjet-printed onto these PS brush-modified substrates. TIPS-pentacene crystals are obtained with different morphologies depending on the chain length of the PS brushes. Short PS chains behave like self-assembled monolayers on the dielectric surface such that small crystals are formed with random orientations. Longer PS chains become partially extended in the solvent altering ink spreading, contact-line pinning, solute migration, and ultimately crystallization. Large self-assembled crystals are generated with highly oriented structures. Organic thin film transistors are fabricated by printing single dots of TIPS-pentacene. The device based on PS brushes of 5.14 nm exhibits the optimal device performances with an average mobility of 0.35 ± 0.23 cm2 V−1 s−1. These results demonstrate that these polymer brushes provide a route toward further understanding inkjet-printing techniques for high-performance organic electronics.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/41106
- DOI
- 10.1002/aelm.201600402
- ISSN
- 2199-160X
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- ADVANCED ELECTRONICS MATERIALS, vol. 3, no. 1, 2017-01
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