High‐Performance Single Crystal Organic Field‐Effect Transistors Based on Two Dithiophene‐Tetrathiafulvalene (DT‐TTF) Polymorphs

Raphael Pfattner, Marta Mas‐Torrent, Ivano Bilotti, Aldo Brillante, Silvia Milita, Fabiola Liscio, Fabio Biscarini, Tomasz Marszałek, Jacek Ulański, Andrzej Nosal,

Advanced Materials · 2010 · 105 citations · 32 references

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Solution prepared single crystal organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) combine low-cost with high performance due to structural ordering of molecules. However, in organic crystals polymorphism is a known phenomenon, which can have a crucial influence on charge transport. Here, the performance of solution-prepared single crystal OFETs based on two different polymorphs of dithiophene-tetrathiafulvalene, which were investigated by confocal Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction, are reported. OFET devices prepared using different configurations show that both polymorphs exhibited excellent device performance, although the α-phase revealed charge carrier mobility between two and ten times higher in accordance to the closer stacking of the molecules. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.

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