Rubrene-Based Single-Crystal Organic Semiconductors: Synthesis, Electronic Structure, and Charge-Transport Properties

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• 作者：Kathryn A. McGarry ; Wei Xie ; Christopher Sutton ; Chad Risko ; Yanfei Wu ; Victor G. Young ; Jr. ; Jean-Luc Br茅das ; C. Daniel Frisbie ; Christopher J. Douglas
• 刊名：Chemistry of Materials
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：June 11, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：25
• 期：11
• 页码：2254-2263
• 全文大小：528K
• 年卷期：v.25,no.11(June 11, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5002

文摘

Correlations among the molecular structure, crystal structure, electronic structure, and charge-carrier transport phenomena have been derived from six congeners (2鈥?b>7) of rubrene (1). The congeners were synthesized via a three-step route from known 6,11-dichloro-5,12-tetracenedione. After crystallization, their packing structures were solved using single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Rubrenes 5鈥?b>7 maintain the orthorhombic features of the parent rubrene (1) in their solid-state packing structures. Control of the packing structure in 5鈥?b>7 provided the first series of systematically manipulated rubrenes that preserve the 蟺-stacking motif of 1. Density functional theory calculations were performed at the B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) level of theory to evaluate the geometric and electronic structure of each derivative and reveal that key properties of rubrene (1) have been maintained. Intermolecular electronic couplings (transfer integrals) were calculated for each derivative to determine the propensity for charge-carrier transport. For rubrenes 5鈥?b>7, evaluations of the transfer integrals and periodic electronic structures suggest these derivatives should exhibit transport characteristics equivalent to, or in some cases improved on, those of the parent rubrene (1), as well as the potential for ambipolar behavior. Single-crystal field-effect transistors were fabricated for 5鈥?b>7, and these derivatives show ambipolar transport as predicted. Although device architecture has yet to be fully optimized, maximum hole (electron) mobilities of 1.54 (0.28) cm² V^鈥? s^鈥? were measured for rubrene 5. This work lays a foundation to improve our understanding of charge-carrier transport phenomena in organic single-crystal semiconductors through the correlation of designed molecular and crystallographic changes to electronic and transport properties.

Keywords:

rubrene derivatives; crystal engineering; electronic band structure; single-crystal field-effect transistors; ambipolar transport