MRS Stevens Guest lecture: Traversing the crystalline phase space in organic semiconductor thin films via post-deposition processing Friday, Oct 24, 2014 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM EDT Carnegie 316 ABSTRACT: Alternative crystal structures of molecular semiconductors may exhibit increased intermolecular charge transport, but methods to controllably access non-thermodynamically-favored crystal structures are lacking. Starting with an amorphous film of contorted hexabenozocoronene (HBC) and applying thermal and solvent-vapor annealing to induce crystallization, we have accessed three distinct HBC polymorphs, two of which have previously not been observed. HBC films crystallize as polymorph I upon thermal annealing and as polymorph II upon solvent-vapor annealing with tetrahydrofuran. Subsequent solvent-vapor annealing of polymorph I converts it to polymorph II; thermal annealing polymorph II transforms HBC to yet a different crystal structure, denoted polymorph II’. Though the crystal structure can be tuned through sequential processing, the preferred out-of-plane molecular orientation adopted by HBC is determined primarily by the first processing step. By imposing different processing sequences, we can access films having different polymorphs but the same molecular orientation, and also films having the same polymorph but different molecular orientations, thereby allowing us to decouple the relative contributions of polymorphism and preferential orientation to charge transport. In the case of HBC, polymorphism and molecular orientation are equally important; with the optimal polymorph and molecular orientation each improving the field-effect mobility of thin-film transistors by an order of magnitude. BIOGRAPHY: Anna Hiszpanski is NDSEG Fellow in Professor Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo’s Organic and Polymer Electronics Laboratory at Princeton University. She is expecting to receive her PhD degree in the coming November, 2014. She received her B.S. degree from Caltech in 2009. Her work focuses on understanding the effects that chemical modifications and processing conditions have on the optoelectronic and self-assembly properties of molecular semiconductor thin films. She has published 5+ papers, including ACS Nano, Energy & Environmental Science. Google scholar: scholar.google/citations?user=7ues1EcAAAAJ&hl=en
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