Solution-printed organic semiconductor blends exhibiting transport properties on par with single crystals.
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| Abstract | :  Solution-printed organic semiconductors have emerged in recent years as promising contenders for roll-to-roll manufacturing of electronic and optoelectronic circuits. The stringent performance requirements for organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) in terms of carrier mobility, switching speed, turn-on voltage and uniformity over large areas require performance currently achieved by organic single-crystal devices, but these suffer from scale-up challenges. Here we present a new method based on blade coating of a blend of conjugated small molecules and amorphous insulating polymers to produce OTFTs with consistently excellent performance characteristics (carrier mobility as high as 6.7 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1), low threshold voltages of<1 V and low subthreshold swings <0.5 V dec(-1)). Our findings demonstrate that careful control over phase separation and crystallization can yield solution-printed polycrystalline organic semiconductor films with transport properties and other figures of merit on par with their single-crystal counterparts. | 
| Year of Publication | :  2015 | 
| Journal | :  Nature communications | 
| Volume | :  6 | 
| Number of Pages | :  8598 | 
| Date Published | :  2015 | 
| URL | :  https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9598 | 
| DOI | :  10.1038/ncomms9598 | 
| Short Title | :  Nat Commun | 
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