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Enhanced charge-carrier mobility in polymer nanofibers realized by solvent-resistant soft nanolithography
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posted on 2015-06-11, 13:19 authored by Elisa MeleElisa Mele, Francesca Lezzi, Alessandro Polini, Davide Altamura, Cinzia Giannini, Dario PisignanoWe realize nanofibers of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) by solvent-resistant nanolithography and use them as the active medium in organic field effect transistors. This process favors a remarkable improvement of the device performances, since we exploit the nanofluidic flow in perfluoropolyether capillaries and the slow solvent evaporation rate in the mold cavities to induce the reorganization of the P3HT chains and obtain a charge carrier mobility 60 times higher than in the corresponding homogenous films. The precise control of the structure cross-section (sub-100 nm) and of the spatial arrangement on the transistor electrodes is very promising for the development of one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures of conjugated materials with high field-effect mobility, applicable to miniaturized optoelectronic devices.
Funding
This work is performed in the framework of the FIRB RBFR08DJZI ‘‘Futuro in Ricerca’’ and partially supported by the SEED project "X-ray synchrotron class rotating anode microsource for the structural micro imaging of nanomaterials and engineered biotissues (XMI-LAB)" – IIT Protocol no. 21537 of 23/12/2009.
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- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
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- Materials
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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRYVolume
22Issue
34Pages
18051 - 18056 (6)Citation
MELE, E. ... et al, 2012. Enhanced charge-carrier mobility in polymer nanofibers realized by solvent-resistant soft nanolithography. Journal of Materials Chemistry, 22 (34), pp. 18051 - 18056.Publisher
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