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Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics
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...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4596007/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26403619 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9394 |
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author | Bucella, Sadir G. Luzio, Alessandro Gann, Eliot Thomsen, Lars McNeill, Christopher R. Pace, Giuseppina Perinot, Andrea Chen, Zhihua Facchetti, Antonio Caironi, Mario |
author_facet | Bucella, Sadir G. Luzio, Alessandro Gann, Eliot Thomsen, Lars McNeill, Christopher R. Pace, Giuseppina Perinot, Andrea Chen, Zhihua Facchetti, Antonio Caironi, Mario |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-45960072015-10-21 Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics Bucella, Sadir G. Luzio, Alessandro Gann, Eliot Thomsen, Lars McNeill, Christopher R. Pace, Giuseppina Perinot, Andrea Chen, Zhihua Facchetti, Antonio Caironi, Mario Nat Commun Article 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. Nature Pub. Group 2015-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC4596007/ /pubmed/26403619 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9394 Text en Copyright © 2015, Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
spellingShingle | Article Bucella, Sadir G. Luzio, Alessandro Gann, Eliot Thomsen, Lars McNeill, Christopher R. Pace, Giuseppina Perinot, Andrea Chen, Zhihua Facchetti, Antonio Caironi, Mario Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics |
title | Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics |
title_full | Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics |
title_fullStr | Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics |
title_full_unstemmed | Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics |
title_short | Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics |
title_sort | macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for mhz large-area electronics |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4596007/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26403619 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9394 |
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