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Vol. 9 No. 4 (2017)

Controlled Growth of Large-Area Aligned Single-Crystalline Organic Nanoribbon Arrays for Transistors and Light-Emitting Diodes Driving

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-017-0153-5
Wei Wang
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University Suzhou, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
Liang Wang
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University Suzhou, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
Gaole Dai
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University Suzhou, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
Wei Deng
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University Suzhou, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
Xiujuan Zhang
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University Suzhou, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
Jiansheng Jie
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University Suzhou, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China
Xiaohong Zhang
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University Suzhou, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Jiansheng Jie

jsjie@suda.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 9 No. 4 (2017), Article Number: 52

Abstract

Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) based on organic micro-/nanocrystals have been widely reported with charge carrier mobility exceeding 1.0 cm2 V−1 s−1, demonstrating great potential for high-performance, low-cost organic electronic applications. However, fabrication of large-area organic micro-/nanocrystal arrays with consistent crystal growth direction has posed a significant technical challenge. Here, we describe a solution-processed dip-coating technique to grow large-area, aligned 9,10-bis(phenylethynyl) anthracene (BPEA) and 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene (TIPS-PEN) single-crystalline nanoribbon arrays. The method is scalable to a 5 × 10 cm2 wafer substrate, with around 60% of the wafer surface covered by aligned crystals. The quality of crystals can be easily controlled by tuning the dip-coating speed. Furthermore, OFETs based on well-aligned BPEA and TIPS-PEN single-crystalline nanoribbons were constructed. By optimizing channel lengths and using appropriate metallic electrodes, the BPEA and TIPS-PEN-based OFETs showed hole mobility exceeding 2.0 cm2 V−1 s−1 (average mobility 1.2 cm2 V−1 s−1) and 3.0 cm2 V−1 s−1 (average mobility 2.0 cm2 V−1 s−1), respectively. They both have a high on/off ratio (I on/I off) > 109. The performance can well satisfy the requirements for light-emitting diodes driving.


Highlights:


1 A simple solution-processed dip-coating method achieves large-area single-crystalline nanoribbon arrays (5 × 10 cm2). High-performance organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) can be obtained through this method.
2 Organic nanoribbon array-based OFETs exhibit long-time cycle stability, enabling the control of light emission of different pixel patterns of LEDs.

Keywords

Large-area growth Organic single-crystalline nanoribbon arrays Organic field-effect transistors Light-emitting diodes driving
Wang, Wei, Liang Wang, Gaole Dai, Wei Deng, Xiujuan Zhang, Jiansheng Jie, and Xiaohong Zhang. 2017. “Controlled Growth of Large-Area Aligned Single-Crystalline Organic Nanoribbon Arrays for Transistors and Light-Emitting Diodes Driving”. Nano-Micro Letters 9 (4):52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-017-0153-5.
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