Molecular Crystal Engineering: Tuning Organic Semiconductor from p-type to n-type by Adjusting Their Substitutional Symmetry

Hui Jiang; Peng Hu; Jun Ye; Yongxin Li; Henan Li; Xiaotao Zhang; Rongjin Li; Huanli Dong; Wenping Hu; Christian Kloc

doi:10.1002/adma.201605053

Molecular Crystal Engineering: Tuning Organic Semiconductor from p-type to n-type by Adjusting Their Substitutional Symmetry

Adv Mater. 2017 Mar;29(10). doi: 10.1002/adma.201605053. Epub 2017 Jan 4.

Authors

Hui Jiang^{1

2}, Peng Hu², Jun Ye³, Yongxin Li⁴, Henan Li², Xiaotao Zhang¹, Rongjin Li¹, Huanli Dong⁵, Wenping Hu^{1

5}, Christian Kloc²

Affiliations

¹ Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Tianjin University and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin, 300072, China.
² School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore.
³ Institute of High Performance Computing, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, 138632, Singapore.
⁴ Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore.
⁵ Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.

PMID: 28052427
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201605053

Abstract

Focusing on the bottleneck of molecularly engineered organic semiconductors, a breakthrough is made to tune the electronic properties of organic semiconductors from p-type to n-type by using fluorinated metal phthalocyanines as examples. The experimentally observed p-type to n-type transition characteristics of single-crystal field-effect devices result from a combination of extrinsic and intrinsic properties of materials with different fluoridation substitution.

Keywords: metal phthalocyanines; mobility; organic field-effect transistor; organic single crystal.