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Self-Assembled Photochromic Molecular Dipoles for High-Performance Polymer Thin-Film Transistors.

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Senanayak, Satyaprasad P 
Sangwan, Vinod K 
McMorrow, Julian J 
Everaerts, Ken 
Chen, Zhihua 

Abstract

The development of high-performance multifunctional polymer-based electronic circuits is a major step toward future flexible electronics. Here, we demonstrate a tunable approach to fabricate such devices based on rationally designed dielectric super-lattice structures with photochromic azobenzene molecules. These nanodielectrics possessing ionic, molecular, and atomic polarization are utilized in polymer thin-film transistors (TFTs) to realize high-performance electronics with a p-type field-effect mobility (μFET) exceeding 2 cm2 V-1 s-1. A crossover in the transport mechanism from electrostatic dipolar disorder to ionic-induced disorder is observed in the transistor characteristics over a range of temperatures. The facile supramolecular design allows the possibility to optically control the extent of molecular and ionic polarization in the ultrathin nanodielectric. Thus, we demonstrate a 3-fold increase in the capacitance from 0.1 to 0.34 μF/cm2, which results in a 200% increase in TFT channel current.

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nanodielectrics, photochromism, phototransistors, polymer transistors, self-assembly

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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

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1944-8244
1944-8252

Volume Title

10

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American Chemical Society (ACS)