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Pentacene
About: Pentacene is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5051 publications have been published within this topic receiving 161481 citations. The topic is also known as: 2,3:6,7-dibenzanthracene & benzo[b]naphthacene.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a self-aligned self-assembly (SA) was used to fabricate alignment-free, printable, organic thin-film transistors, which utilizes a selfassembly phenomenon in which soluble nanomaterials such as metallic nanoparticles and organic molecules are self-assembled into a device structure.
Abstract: A process for fabricating alignment-free, printable, organic thin-film transistors is presented. This process utilizes a self-assembly phenomenon in which soluble nanomaterials such as metallic nanoparticles and organic molecules are self-assembled into a device structure. To demonstrate this process, solution-processed source∕drain electrodes were self-aligned to a gate electrode using a hydrophobic self-assembled monolayer (SAM) optically patterned onto the gate electrode using a backsubstrate exposure technique. An organic semiconductor film deposited on the patterned SAM was selectively ordered and substantially self-aligned to the gate electrode. This process is called self-aligned self-assembly. A field-effect mobility of 0.15cm2∕Vs and potential minimum channel length of 3μm were experimentally demonstrated when pentacene molecules and silver nanoparticles were used as the semiconductor and electrode materials, respectively.
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TL;DR: In this article, a chemically coupled polymer layer is introduced onto inorganic oxide dielectrics from a dilute chlorosilane-terminated polystyrene (PS) solution.
Abstract: A chemically coupled polymer layer is introduced onto inorganic oxide dielectrics from a dilute chlorosilane-terminated polystyrene (PS) solution. As a result of this surface modification, hydrophilic-oxide dielectrics gain hydrophobic, physicochemically stable properties. On such PS-coupled SiO2 or AlOx dielectrics, various vacuum- and solution-processable organic semiconductors can develop highly ordered crystalline structures that provide higher field-effect mobilities (μFETs) than other surface-modified systems, and negligible hysteresis in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). In particular, the use of PS-coupled AlOx nanodielectrics enables a solution-processable triethylsilylethynyl anthradithiophene OFET to operate with μFET ∼ 1.26 cm2 V−1 s−1 at a gate voltage below –1 V. In addition, a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor-like organic inverter with a high voltage gain of approximately 32 was successfully fabricated on a PS-coupled SiO2 dielectric.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a solar cell fabricated from a blend of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as the donor and the cyanopentacenes as acceptors, and found that the acceptors that stack in a 1D "sandwich-herringbone" exhibited the best performance of derivatives.
Abstract: 6,13-Bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl) (TIPS)-pentacene has proven to be a promising soluble p-type material for organic thin film transistors as well as for photovoltaics. In this work, we show that adding electron-withdrawing nitrile functional groups to TIPS-pentacene turns it into an n-type material, which can be used as an acceptor for organic solar cells. Several new cyanopentacenes with different trialkylsilyl functional groups have been synthesized. The HOMO–LUMO energy levels can be tuned by varying the number of nitrile groups, while the trialkylsilyl groups control crystal packing and film morphology. Solar cells were fabricated from a blend of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as the donor and the cyanopentacenes as acceptors, and we found that the acceptors that stack in a 1D “sandwich-herringbone” exhibited the best performance of derivatives in this study. A solar cell fabricated from a blend of P3HT and 2,3-dicyano-6,13-bis-(tricyclopentylsilylethynyl)pentacene (2,3-CN2-TCPS-Pn) exhibited a power conversion efficiency of 0.43% under 100 mW cm−2AM 1.5 illumination.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a hysteresis-free transfer curve with very small switch-on voltages was obtained for single-monolayer pentacene active channels with self-assembled monolayers.
Abstract: Pentacene field-effect transistor performance can be improved by modifying metal electrodes with self-assembled monolayers. The dominant role in performance is played by pentacene morphology rather than the work function of the modified electrodes. With optimized processing conditions, hysteresis-free transfer curves with very small switch-on voltages are obtained for single-monolayer pentacene active channels.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured transient photoconductivity in functionalized pentacene molecular crystals using ultrafast optical pump--terahertz probe techniques, and the single crystal samples were excited using 800 nm, 100 fs pulses.
Abstract: We have measured transient photoconductivity in functionalized pentacene molecular crystals using ultrafast optical pump--terahertz probe techniques. The single crystal samples were excited using 800 nm, 100 fs pulses, and the change in transmission of time-delayed, subpicosecond terahertz pulses was used to probe the photoconducting state over a temperature range from 10 to 300 K. A subpicosecond rise in photoconductivity is observed, suggesting that mobile carriers are a primary photoexcitation. At times longer than 4 ps, a power-law decay is observed consistent with dispersive transport.
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