Charge carrier traps in organic semiconductors: a review on the underlying physics and impact on electronic devices

HF Haneef, AM Zeidell, OD Jurchescu - Journal of Materials Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The weak intermolecular interactions inherent in organic semiconductors make them
susceptible to defect formation, resulting in localized states in the band-gap that can trap …

Organic semiconductor crystals

C Wang, H Dong, L Jiang, W Hu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic semiconductors have attracted a lot of attention since the discovery of highly doped
conductive polymers, due to the potential application in field-effect transistors (OFETs), light …

Interface engineering in organic field-effect transistors: principles, applications, and perspectives

H Chen, W Zhang, M Li, G He, X Guo - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Heterogeneous interfaces that are ubiquitous in optoelectronic devices play a key role in the
device performance and have led to the prosperity of today's microelectronics. Interface …

Electronic muscles and skins: a review of soft sensors and actuators

D Chen, Q Pei - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
This article reviews several classes of compliant materials that can be utilized to fabricate
electronic muscles and skins. Different classes of materials range from compliant …

Integrated materials design of organic semiconductors for field-effect transistors

J Mei, Y Diao, AL Appleton, L Fang… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The past couple of years have witnessed a remarkable burst in the development of organic
field-effect transistors (OFETs), with a number of organic semiconductors surpassing the …

Semiconducting π-conjugated systems in field-effect transistors: a material odyssey of organic electronics

C Wang, H Dong, W Hu, Y Liu, D Zhu - Chemical reviews, 2012 - ACS Publications
Since the discovery of highly conducting polyacetylene by Shirakawa, MacDiarmid, and
Heeger1 in 1977, π-conjugated systems have attracted much attention as futuristic materials …

Recent advances in ambipolar transistors for functional applications

Y Ren, X Yang, L Zhou, JY Mao… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ambipolar transistors represent a class of transistors where positive (holes) and negative
(electrons) charge carriers both can transport concurrently within the semiconducting …

A high-mobility electron-transporting polymer for printed transistors

H Yan, Z Chen, Y Zheng, C Newman, JR Quinn, F Dötz… - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Printed electronics is a revolutionary technology aimed at unconventional electronic device
manufacture on plastic foils, and will probably rely on polymeric semiconductors for organic …

Low band gap polycyclic hydrocarbons: from closed-shell near infrared dyes and semiconductors to open-shell radicals

Z Sun, Q Ye, C Chi, J Wu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Low band gap (Eg< 1.5 eV) polycyclic hydrocarbons have become one of the most important
types of materials for many applications, for example, as semiconductors in organic field …

Charge-transfer complexes: new perspectives on an old class of compounds

KP Goetz, D Vermeulen, ME Payne, C Kloc… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The discovery of the organic metal TTF–TCNQ in 1973 led to an explosion of research
conducted on organic charge-transfer complexes. While these materials have been studied …