Reducing dynamic disorder in small-molecule organic semiconductors by suppressing large-amplitude thermal motions

Thermal vibration is harmful to charge transport in molecular semiconductors, which hinders the use of these materials in flexible electronics. Here, Illig et al.show that the vibration is suppressed when molecular side chains are attached to the long axis of conjugated cores.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Steffen Illig, Alexander S. Eggeman, Alessandro Troisi, Lang Jiang, Chris Warwick, Mark Nikolka, Guillaume Schweicher, Stephen G. Yeates, Yves Henri Geerts, John E. Anthony, Henning Sirringhaus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10736
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Summary:Thermal vibration is harmful to charge transport in molecular semiconductors, which hinders the use of these materials in flexible electronics. Here, Illig et al.show that the vibration is suppressed when molecular side chains are attached to the long axis of conjugated cores.
ISSN:2041-1723