Organic thin film transistors, molecular self-assembly

DiBenedetto SA, Facchetti A, Ratner MA, Marks TJ (2009) Molecular self-assembled monolayers and multilayers for organic and unconventional inorganic thin-film transistor applications. Adv Mater 21 1407-1433... 

Abstract. The design and synthesis of new molecular synthons for vapor-phase self-assembled nanodieletrics and silane crosslinkers for crosslinked polymer blend dielectrics is described. These dielectric films exhibit excellent dielectric properties with tunable thicknesses and capacitance values. These new gate dielectric materials are integrated into thin-film transistors based both p- and n-type organic semiconductors. 

Research on industrial areas such as organic light-emitting devices, photovoltaics, and thin film transistors involves investigations about LCs due to their high carrier mobilities, anisotropic transport, and polarized emission resulting from their self-assembling properties and super-molecular structures. 

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