Speaker
Mr
Masrur Morshed Nahid
(Monash University)
Description
In making organic electronics a reality, donor-acceptor based conjugated semiconducting polymers are playing pivotal role. However, the molecular packing, crystallinity and the disorder of the polymer matrix in the thin-films typically result in low charge transport mobilities. To this end, mechanical rubbing with velvet cloths is used to mediate the chain assembly and directional alignment of the polymer, poly[4-(4,4-dihexadecyl-4H-cyclopenta[1,2-b:5,4-b’]-dithiophen-2-yl)-[1,2,5]-thiadiazolo-[3,4-c]-pyridine], (**PCDTPT**). Intrinsic mobility and the charge transport properties of the PCDTPT thin-films are characterized by Organic Field Effect Transistors (**OFETs**), molecular packing and relative crystallinity are probed by the Grazing Incidence Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (**GIWAXS**) and the surface molecular orientations are probed by the Near Edge X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (**NEXAFS**) spectroscopy. Top-Gated OFET mobility of the spin-coated films is found very high, ~ 2.8 ± 0.2 cm2/VS. GIWAXS reveals that mechanical rubbing introduces a face-on orientation of the crystallites, a stark contrast to the spin-coated films with edge-on orientation. In both the samples, the pi-pi stacking distance is 0.355 ± 0.005 nm and the alkyl-chain stacking distance is 2.50 ± 0.05 nm. Likewise, C- and N-edge NEXAFS experiments confirm that the crystallites at the top-surfaces of the rubbed-films are indeed packed in a face-on fashion, but they adapt an edge-on orientation in the spin-coated films.
| Keywords | Semiconducting polymers, Molecular Packing, Crystallinity, Orientation, Morphology, Mobility, Organic electronics |
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Primary author
Mr
Masrur Morshed Nahid
(Monash University)
Co-authors
Chris McNeill
(Monash University)
Eliot Gann
(Australian Synchrotron)
