Vapor-Induced Coating Method for Well-Aligned and Uniform Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals

Lu-Jing Shao; Sheng-Nan Chen; Yu-Meng Wang; Zheng Li; Xiao-Song Shi; Hao-Ran Long; Lang Jiang; Jue-Han Yang; Ya-Li Qiao; Yan-Lin Song

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Vapor-Induced Coating Method for Well-Aligned and Uniform Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals

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- Vapor-Induced Coating Method for Well-Aligned and Uniform Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals
- Vapor-Induced Coating Method for Well-Aligned and Uniform Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals
- 高分子科学（英文版） 2023年41卷第10期页码：1638-1645
- Affiliations：
  
  a.Key Laboratory of Green Printing, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Research Center of Nanomaterials for Green Printing Technology, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Beijing 100190, China
  b.School of Chemical Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  c.State Key Laboratory of Trauma, Burn and Combined Injury, Institute of Burn Research, Southwest Hospital, Army Medical University, Chongqing 400038, China
  d.Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  e.State Key Laboratory of Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100083, China
- Author bio：
  
  qiaoyl@iccas.ac.cn (Y.L.Q.)
  ylsong@iccas.ac.cn (Y.L.S.)
- Funds：
  
  This work was financially supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Nos. 2018YFA0703200 and 2018YFA0208501), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 22175185, 52003276, 52203247, 91963212 and 22002171), Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (No. BNLMS-CXXM-202005) and CAS-VPST Silk Road Science Fund 2022 (No. 121111KYSB20210006). We thank Jiling Yue, Kaiang Liu and Bo Guan for the cryo-TEM measurements.;Electronic supplementary information (ESI) is available free of charge in the online version of this article at http://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-023-2979-2.
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-023-2979-2
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- 收稿：2023-02-10，
  
  修回：2023-3-2，
  
  录用：2023-3-13，
  
  网络首发：2023-04-18，
  
  纸质出版：2023-10-01
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Shao, L. J.; Chen, S. N.; Wang, Y. M.; Li, Z.; Shi, X. S.; Long, H. R.; Jiang, L.; Yang, J. H.; Qiao, Y. L.; Song, Y. L. Vapor-induced coating method for well-aligned and uniform organic semiconductor single crystals. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 41, 1638–1645

Lu-Jing Shao, Sheng-Nan Chen, Yu-Meng Wang, et al. Vapor-Induced Coating Method for Well-Aligned and Uniform Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2023, 41(10): 1638-1645.
Shao, L. J.; Chen, S. N.; Wang, Y. M.; Li, Z.; Shi, X. S.; Long, H. R.; Jiang, L.; Yang, J. H.; Qiao, Y. L.; Song, Y. L. Vapor-induced coating method for well-aligned and uniform organic semiconductor single crystals. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 41, 1638–1645 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-023-2979-2.

Lu-Jing Shao, Sheng-Nan Chen, Yu-Meng Wang, et al. Vapor-Induced Coating Method for Well-Aligned and Uniform Organic Semiconductor Single Crystals[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2023, 41(10): 1638-1645. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-023-2979-2.

摘要

A vapor-induced coating method is proposed for generating unidirectional and stable Marangoni flow to prepare uniform and well-aligned organic semiconductor stripe crystals

which show good performance in organic field effect transistors and superior solar-blind polarization sensitivity in photodetectors.

Abstract

Uniform and well-aligned organic semiconductor single crystals (OSSCs) are critical for high-performance electronic and optoelectronic device applications due to their long-range order and low defect density. However

it is still challenging to fabricate uniform and well-aligned OSSCs by an efficient and facile method. Here

we report a vapor-induced coating method to prepare uniform organic semiconductor stripe single crystals with well-aligned orientation. The coating velocity and solution concentration are important to control the stripe crystals’ morphology

which influence the triple-phase contact line dewetting behavior and then change the mass transport of the meniscus. Insufficient solute supply causes the generation of dendritic crystals. Uniform stripe single crystals of high quality and pure orientation are prepared in the condition of a sufficient and suitable solute supply. Moreover

the electronic and optoelectronic properties are evaluated. Notably

the polarization-sensitive photodetectors based on the uniform stripe crystals exhibit high polarization sensitivity and its dichroic ratio of photocurrent is 1.98. This method is efficient for the preparation of various high-quality and uniform organic semiconductor stripe single crystals

opening an opportunity for high-performance organic functional devices.

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