The Future of High-performance Organic Transistors

Samsung SDI [12] and RFID circuitry based on pentacene from 3M [30c] which has been reported to operate as high as 8 MHz. 

Reports from 3M [46] and from Lucent Technologies [47] have indicated that combining thiophenes and acenes may also be a promising approach. The thiophene systems are somewhat easier to synthesize and purify, because of their greater solubility, but the acenes are typically higher-performing. The combination of the two has shown some intriguing initial results. 

ZSCHIESCHANG, G. SCHMID, S. Ponomarenko, S. Kirchmeyer, W. Weber, Adv. Mater , 2003, 15, 917, and references therein. 

Swenberg, Electronic Processes in Organic Crystals and Polymers, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, New York, 1999. 

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