Semiconducting π-conjugated systems in field-effect transistors: a material odyssey of organic electronics

C Wang, H Dong, W Hu, Y Liu, D Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Since the discovery of highly conducting polyacetylene by Shirakawa, MacDiarmid, and
Heeger1 in 1977, π-conjugated systems have attracted much attention as futuristic materials …

Electron and ambipolar transport in organic field-effect transistors

J Zaumseil, H Sirringhaus - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
Ever since the first field-effect transistors (FETs) based on polymer1-3 and small molecule4,
5 semiconductors were reported, interest in this field has risen steadily for both technological …

Optical band gaps of organic semiconductor materials

JCS Costa, RJS Taveira, CF Lima, A Mendes… - Optical Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
UV–Vis can be used as an easy and forthright technique to accurately estimate the band
gap energy of organic π-conjugated materials, widely used as thin films/composites in …

Rational design of high performance conjugated polymers for organic solar cells

H Zhou, L Yang, W You - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
The research on the polymer-based solar cells (PSCs) has attracted an increasing amount
of attention in recent years because PSCs pose potential advantages over mainstream …

Molecular design and ordering effects in π-functional materials for transistor and solar cell applications

PM Beaujuge, JMJ Fréchet - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Organic electronics are broadly anticipated to impact the development of flexible thin-film
device technologies. Among these, solution-processable π-conjugated polymers and small …

Development of fluorinated benzothiadiazole as a structural unit for a polymer solar cell of 7% efficiency

H Zhou, L Yang, AC Stuart, SC Price… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorinated organic molecules exhibit a series of unique features such as great thermal and
oxidative stability,[1] elevated resistance to degradation,[2] enhanced hydrophobicity, high …

Roles of flexible chains in organic semiconducting materials

T Lei, JY Wang, J Pei - Chemistry of Materials, 2014 - ACS Publications
In the past couple of years, remarkable progress has been made in solution-processable
organic semiconducting materials for optoelectronics. The development of novel π …

Functional oligothiophenes: molecular design for multidimensional nanoarchitectures and their applications

A Mishra, CQ Ma, P Bauerle - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
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Charge carrier transporting molecular materials and their applications in devices

Y Shirota, H Kageyama - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
Electronic and optoelectronic devices using organic materials as active elements, for
example, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic photovoltaic devices (OPVs) …

Organic semiconducting oligomers for use in thin film transistors

AR Murphy, JMJ Frechet - Chemical reviews, 2007 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, the number of research groups exploring the field of organic
electronics has exploded due to the potential use of organic semiconducting materials as a …