A Quantitative Correlation between the Mobility and Crystallinity of Photo-Cross-Linkable P3HT

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• 作者：Claire H. Woo ; Claudia Piliego ; Thomas W. Holcombe ; Michael F. Toney ; Jean M. J. Fr茅chet
• 刊名：Macromolecules
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：April 10, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：45
• 期：7
• 页码：3057-3062
• 全文大小：310K
• 年卷期：v.45,no.7(April 10, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-5835

文摘

The performance of polymer field effect transistors (FETs) can vary by orders of magnitude by applying different processing conditions. Although it is generally believed that a higher degree of crystallinity results in a higher mobility, the correlation is not straightforward. In addition, the effect of cross-linking on polymer thin film microstructural order is relatively unknown. This study investigates the effect of thermal annealing and UV-initiated photo-cross-linking on the FET performance and microstructural order of a photo-cross-linkable P3HT derivative. Our results demonstrate that while cross-linking did not disrupt the overall crystallinity of the polymer thin film, the photo-cross-linking process likely induced doping in the semiconductor layer, leading to the absence of saturation behavior in the FET. Annealing after cross-linking slightly improved the FET performance but only minimally affected the microstructural order of the polymer film since the 3D morphology had been 鈥渓ocked in鈥?during the first cross-linking step. Importantly, annealing and cross-linking simultaneously was a successful method to preserve polymer crystallinity while also achieving effective cross-linking. Using newly developed quantitative X-ray analysis techniques, our study established a quantitative correlation between FET charge mobility and thin film crystallinity.