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Elastic organic semiconducting single crystals for durable all-flexible field-effect transistors: insights into the bending mechanism

Although many examples of mechanically flexible crystals are currently known, their utility in all-flexible devices is not yet adequately demonstrated, despite their immense potential for fabricating high performance flexible devices. Here, we report two alkylated diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) semicond...

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Autores principales: Samanta, Ranita, Das, Susobhan, Mondal, Saikat, Alkhidir, Tamador, Mohamed, Sharmarke, Senanayak, Satyaprasad P., Reddy, C. Malla
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Publicado: The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9906658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36794186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2sc05217b
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author Samanta, Ranita
Das, Susobhan
Mondal, Saikat
Alkhidir, Tamador
Mohamed, Sharmarke
Senanayak, Satyaprasad P.
Reddy, C. Malla
author_facet Samanta, Ranita
Das, Susobhan
Mondal, Saikat
Alkhidir, Tamador
Mohamed, Sharmarke
Senanayak, Satyaprasad P.
Reddy, C. Malla
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description Although many examples of mechanically flexible crystals are currently known, their utility in all-flexible devices is not yet adequately demonstrated, despite their immense potential for fabricating high performance flexible devices. Here, we report two alkylated diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) semiconducting single crystals, one of which displays impressive elastic mechanical flexibility whilst the other is brittle. Using the single crystal structures and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we show that the methylated diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP-diMe) crystals, with dominant π-stacking interactions and large contributions from dispersive interactions, are superior in terms of their stress tolerance and field-effect mobility (μ(FET)) when compared to the brittle crystals of the ethylated diketopyrrolopyrrole derivative (DPP-diEt). Periodic dispersion-corrected DFT calculations revealed that upon the application of 3% uniaxial strain along the crystal growth (a)-axis, the elastically flexible DPP-diMe crystal displays a soft energy barrier of only 0.23 kJ mol(−1) while the brittle DPP-diEt crystal displays a significantly larger energy barrier of 3.42 kJ mol(−1), in both cases relative to the energy of the strain-free crystal. Such energy–structure–function correlations are currently lacking in the growing literature on mechanically compliant molecular crystals and have the potential to support a deeper understanding of the mechanism of mechanical bending. The field effect transistors (FETs) made of flexible substrates using elastic microcrystals of DPP-diMe retained μ(FET) (from 0.019 cm(2) V(−1) s(−1) to 0.014 cm(2) V(−1) s(−1)) more efficiently even after 40 bending cycles when compared to the brittle microcrystals of DPP-diEt which showed a significant drop in μ(FET) just after 10 bending cycles. Our results not only provide valuable insights into the bending mechanism, but also demonstrate the untapped potential of mechanically flexible semiconducting crystals for designing all flexible durable field-effect transistor devices.
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spelling pubmed-99066582023-02-14 Elastic organic semiconducting single crystals for durable all-flexible field-effect transistors: insights into the bending mechanism Samanta, Ranita Das, Susobhan Mondal, Saikat Alkhidir, Tamador Mohamed, Sharmarke Senanayak, Satyaprasad P. Reddy, C. Malla Chem Sci Chemistry Although many examples of mechanically flexible crystals are currently known, their utility in all-flexible devices is not yet adequately demonstrated, despite their immense potential for fabricating high performance flexible devices. Here, we report two alkylated diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) semiconducting single crystals, one of which displays impressive elastic mechanical flexibility whilst the other is brittle. Using the single crystal structures and density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we show that the methylated diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP-diMe) crystals, with dominant π-stacking interactions and large contributions from dispersive interactions, are superior in terms of their stress tolerance and field-effect mobility (μ(FET)) when compared to the brittle crystals of the ethylated diketopyrrolopyrrole derivative (DPP-diEt). Periodic dispersion-corrected DFT calculations revealed that upon the application of 3% uniaxial strain along the crystal growth (a)-axis, the elastically flexible DPP-diMe crystal displays a soft energy barrier of only 0.23 kJ mol(−1) while the brittle DPP-diEt crystal displays a significantly larger energy barrier of 3.42 kJ mol(−1), in both cases relative to the energy of the strain-free crystal. Such energy–structure–function correlations are currently lacking in the growing literature on mechanically compliant molecular crystals and have the potential to support a deeper understanding of the mechanism of mechanical bending. The field effect transistors (FETs) made of flexible substrates using elastic microcrystals of DPP-diMe retained μ(FET) (from 0.019 cm(2) V(−1) s(−1) to 0.014 cm(2) V(−1) s(−1)) more efficiently even after 40 bending cycles when compared to the brittle microcrystals of DPP-diEt which showed a significant drop in μ(FET) just after 10 bending cycles. Our results not only provide valuable insights into the bending mechanism, but also demonstrate the untapped potential of mechanically flexible semiconducting crystals for designing all flexible durable field-effect transistor devices. The Royal Society of Chemistry 2022-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9906658/ /pubmed/36794186 http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2sc05217b Text en This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
spellingShingle Chemistry
Samanta, Ranita
Das, Susobhan
Mondal, Saikat
Alkhidir, Tamador
Mohamed, Sharmarke
Senanayak, Satyaprasad P.
Reddy, C. Malla
Elastic organic semiconducting single crystals for durable all-flexible field-effect transistors: insights into the bending mechanism
title Elastic organic semiconducting single crystals for durable all-flexible field-effect transistors: insights into the bending mechanism
title_full Elastic organic semiconducting single crystals for durable all-flexible field-effect transistors: insights into the bending mechanism
title_fullStr Elastic organic semiconducting single crystals for durable all-flexible field-effect transistors: insights into the bending mechanism
title_full_unstemmed Elastic organic semiconducting single crystals for durable all-flexible field-effect transistors: insights into the bending mechanism
title_short Elastic organic semiconducting single crystals for durable all-flexible field-effect transistors: insights into the bending mechanism
title_sort elastic organic semiconducting single crystals for durable all-flexible field-effect transistors: insights into the bending mechanism
topic Chemistry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9906658/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36794186
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2sc05217b
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