Abstract
Fluorination has been demonstrated to improve stability and processing in thiophene-containing small-molecule semiconductors. Here, the impact of partial fluorination on these parameters in a pentacene derivative is examined. Although the improvement in photostability is not as dramatic, there is a clear improvement in the stability of the chromophore upon fluorination. The improvement in processability is more dramatic; devices formed by spin-coating with the fluorinated derivative perform substantially better than those formed from the nonfluorinated compound.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1251-1257 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | ChemPhysChem |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 27 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Keywords
- charge transport
- crystal structure
- organic field-effect transistors
- pentacenes
- semiconductors
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry