Advanced Materials
Advanced Materials
5 years ago

Rational In Silico Design of an Organic Semiconductor with Improved Electron Mobility

Rational In Silico Design of an Organic Semiconductor with Improved Electron Mobility
Timo Strunk, Mario Ruben, Verónica Gómez, Michael Jenne, Andrea Magri, Velimir Meded, Alexander Colsmann, Christian Sprau, Wolfgang Wenzel, Franz Symalla, Pascal Friederich
Organic semiconductors find a wide range of applications, such as in organic light emitting diodes, organic solar cells, and organic field effect transistors. One of their most striking disadvantages in comparison to crystalline inorganic semiconductors is their low charge-carrier mobility, which manifests itself in major device constraints such as limited photoactive layer thicknesses. Trial-and-error attempts to increase charge-carrier mobility are impeded by the complex interplay of the molecular and electronic structure of the material with its morphology. Here, the viability of a multiscale simulation approach to rationally design materials with improved electron mobility is demonstrated. Starting from one of the most widely used electron conducting materials (Alq3), novel organic semiconductors with tailored electronic properties are designed for which an improvement of the electron mobility by three orders of magnitude is predicted and experimentally confirmed. The viability of a multiscale simulation approach to rationally design organic semiconductors with improved electron mobility is demonstrated. Novel materials with tailored electronic properties are designed for which an improvement of the electron mobility by three orders of magnitude is predicted and experimentally confirmed.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/adma.201703505

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