Spray printing of organic semiconducting single crystals

Grigorios-Panagiotis Rigas; Marcia M. Payne; John E. Anthony; Peter N. Horton; Fernando A. Castro; Maxim Shkunov

doi:10.1038/ncomms13531

Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Spray printing of organic semiconducting single crystals

Grigorios-Panagiotis Rigas,
Marcia M. Payne,
John E. Anthony,
Peter N. Horton,
Fernando A. Castro,
Maxim Shkunov

Affiliations

Grigorios-Panagiotis Rigas: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey
Marcia M. Payne: Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky
John E. Anthony: Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky
Peter N. Horton: School of Chemistry, University of Southampton
Fernando A. Castro: National Physical Laboratory
Maxim Shkunov: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13531
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The development of organic electronics calls for low-cost printing techniques that can prepare high quality, large-area organic single crystals. Here, Rigaset al. achieve this goal by combining spray printing and antisolvent crystallization and test the method on various materials and substrates.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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