Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10736
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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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.