Core-fluorinated perylene bisimide dyes: Air stable n-channel organic semiconductors for thin film transistors with exceptionally high on-to-off current ratios

Advanced Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 3692-3695

  Schmidt, Rüdiger ^a   Ling, Mang Mang ^b   Oh, Joon Hak ^b   Winkler, Michael ^a   Könemann, Martin ^c   Bao, Zhenan ^a,b   Würthner, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FLUORINATION; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

ATROPISOMERS; PERYLENE TETRACARBOXYLIC ACID BISAMIDES (PBI);

DYES;

EID: 36248961631     PISSN: 09359648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adma.200701478     Document Type: Article

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