Study of cooperative aggregation of organic semiconductor in solution

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Soluble pentacene derivatives are high performing semiconductors for use in organic transistors offering low cost solution processability, and potential for migration to flexible substrates. Performance of such materials is limited by an inability to control crystallization over large areas. We have shown that formulation with either a dielectric or semiconducting polymer can give increased control over large area thin film crystallization.We have shown soluble pentacene derivatives form supramolecular aggregates in solution, influenced by additional polymer. We shall study the interrelation between solution aggregation state, thin film crystallization and electrical performance. Small angle neutron scattering can uniquely give us information relative to cluster morphology in solution and we expect this study to lead towards reliable solution processed thin film devices.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24071234
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24071234
Provenance
Creator Professor Mark Geoghegan
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2009-08-07T06:45:21Z
Temporal Coverage End 2009-08-10T08:13:21Z