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任意衬底上大面积单晶聚并苯薄膜的生长

Growth of macroscopic-area single crystal polyacene thin films on arbitrary substrates

Randall L. Headrick, Hua Zhou, Binran Wang, Yiping Wang, Greggory P. Carpenter, Alex C. Mayer, Matthew Lloyd, George G. Malliaras, Alexander Kazimirov, John E. Anthony

摘要:

有机电子材料在许多低成本、大面积的电子器件如平板显示器和廉价的太阳能电池板中具有潜在的应用。蒽、并四苯、并五苯系列中的小分子是用作这种器件中的活性层的有机半导体薄膜的模型分子。这激发了对聚并苯薄膜生长和结构的大量研究。尽管这些研究中的大多数依赖于气相沉积膜,但是对于器件的工业生产而言,期望将具有改善的性质的膜基于溶剂沉积到非结晶基底上。薄膜中有序性的改善将对它们的电子性质产生很大影响,因为晶界和其他缺陷对载流子迁移率和寿命是有害的。因此,在任意衬底上制备大面积单晶薄膜是该领域长期存在的挑战。在这里,我们展示了一种基于溶剂的方法来沉积有机半导体薄膜,这是非常普遍的。利用该技术可以在各种衬底上制备出单晶畴尺寸超过1 × 1cm ~ 2的蒽薄膜。6,13-双(三异丙基甲硅烷基乙炔基)并五苯的膜也被证明具有大于2 X 2 mm 2的晶粒尺寸。相比之下,通过常规方法如气相沉积或旋涂生产的膜是具有微米级晶粒尺寸的多晶。这些小分子在优化的溶剂沉积工艺中朝向结晶顺序的一般倾向表明,具有改进性质的薄膜具有很大的潜力。通过这些方法制备的薄膜也将有助于探索有机薄膜器件的性能极限。

英文摘要:

Organic electronic materials have potential applications in a number of low-cost, large area electronic devices such as flat panel displays and inexpensive solar panels. Small molecules in the series Anthracene, Tetracene, Pentacene, are model molecules for organic semiconductor thin films to be used as the active layers in such devices. This has motivated a number of studies of polyacene thin film growth and structure. Although the majority of these studies rely on vapor-deposited films, solvent-based deposition of films with improved properties onto non-crystalline substrates is desired for industrial production of devices. Improved ordering in thin films will have a large impact on their electronic properties, since grain boundaries and other defects are detrimental to carrier mobilities and lifetimes. Thus, a long-standing challenge in this field is to prepare largearea single crystal films on arbitrary substrates. Here we demonstrate a solvent-based method to deposit thin films of organic semiconductors, which is very general. Anthracene thin films with single-crystal domain sizes exceeding 1x1 cm2 can be prepared on various substrates by the technique. Films of 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)pentacene are also demonstrated to have grain sizes larger than 2x2 mm2. In contrast, films produced by conventional means such as vapor deposition or spin coating are polycrystalline with micron-scale grain sizes. The general propensity of these small molecules towards crystalline order in an optimized solvent deposition process shows that there is great potential for thin films with improved properties. Films prepared by these methods will also be useful in exploring the limits of performance in organic thin film devices.

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