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Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics

2015; Nature Portfolio; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1038/ncomms9394

2041-1723

Sadir Gabriele Bucella, Alessandro Luzio, Eliot Gann, Lars Thomsen, Christopher R. McNeill, Giuseppina Pace, Andrea Perinot, Zhihua Chen, Antonio Facchetti, Mario Caironi,

Thin-Film Transistor Technologies

Abstract High-mobility semiconducting polymers offer the opportunity to develop flexible and large-area electronics for several applications, including wearable, portable and distributed sensors, monitoring and actuating devices. An enabler of this technology is a scalable printing process achieving uniform electrical performances over large area. As opposed to the deposition of highly crystalline films, orientational alignment of polymer chains, albeit commonly achieved by non-scalable/slow bulk alignment schemes, is a more robust approach towards large-area electronics. By combining pre-aggregating solvents for formulating the semiconductor and by adopting a room temperature wired bar-coating technique, here we demonstrate the fast deposition of submonolayers and nanostructured films of a model electron-transporting polymer. Our approach enables directional self-assembling of polymer chains exhibiting large transport anisotropy and a mobility up to 6.4 cm 2 V −1 s −1 , allowing very simple device architectures to operate at 3.3 MHz. Thus, the proposed deposition strategy is exceptionally promising for mass manufacturing of high-performance polymer circuits.