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Oligothiophene Phosphonic Acids for Self-Assembled Monolayer Field-Effect Transistors

Zhao, Baolin
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Gothe, Bastian
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Groh, Arthur
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July 14, 2021
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Semiconducting self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) represent highly relevant components for the fabrication of organic thin-film electronics because they enable the precise formation of active it-conjugates in terms of orientation and layer thickness. In this work, we demonstrate self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs) composed of phosphonic acid oligomers of 3-hexylthiophene (oligothiophenes-OT) with systematic variations of thiophene repeating units (5, 10, and 20). The devices exhibit stable lateral charge transport with increased mobility as a function of thiophene unit counts. Importantly, our work reveals the packing and intermolecular order of varied-chain-length SAMs at the molecular scale via X-ray reflectivity (XRR) and quantitative X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Short oligomers (OT5-PA and OT10-PA) arrange almost perpendicular to the substrate, forming highly ordered SAMs, whereas the long-chain OT20-PA exhibits a folded structure. By tuning the molecular order in the monolayers via the SAM substitution reaction, the OT20-PA devices show a tripling in mobility.

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DOI
10.1021/acsami.1c05764
Web of Science ID

WOS:000674333400111

Author(s)
Zhao, Baolin
Gothe, Bastian
Groh, Arthur
Schmaltz, Thomas  
Will, Johannes
Steinrueck, Hans-Georg
Unruh, Tobias
Mecking, Stefan
Halik, Marcus
Date Issued

2021-07-14

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Volume

13

Issue

27

Start page

32461

End page

32466

Subjects

Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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Materials Science

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samfets

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structure-property

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charge transport

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self-assembly

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semiconducting oligomer

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voltage organic transistors

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charge-transport

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semiconductors

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design

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