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"Two-dimensional charge
transport in self-organized, high-mobility conjugated polymers,"
by H. Sirringhaus and 10 others, Nature, 401(6754):685-8, 14
October 1999.
[University of Cambridge, U.K.; Riso
National Lab., Roskilde, Denmark; Eindhoven University of Technology,
Netherlands; Philips Research Labs, Eindhoven, Netherlands]
Abstract:
"Self-organization in many solution-processed, semiconducting
conjugated polymers results in complex microstructures, in which
ordered microcrystalline domains are embedded in an amorphous matrix.
This has important consequences for electrical properties of these
materials: charge transport is usually limited by the most difficult
hopping processes and is therefore dominated by the disordered matrix,
resulting in low charge-carrier mobilities....Here we use thin-film,
field-effect transistor structures to probe the transport properties
of the ordered microcrystalline domains in the conjugated polymer
poly(3-hexylthiopene), P3HT. Self-organization in P3HT results in a
lamella structure with two-dimensional conjugated sheets formed by
interchain stacking. We find that, depending on processing conditions,
the lamellae can adopt two different orientations--parallel and normal
to the substrate--the mobilities of which differ by more than a factor
of 100, and can reach values as high as 0.1 cmV-1s-1. Optical
spectroscopy of the field-induced charge, combined with the mobility
anisotropy, reveals the two-dimensional interchain character of the
polaronic charge carriers, which exhibit lower relaxation energies
than the corresponding radical cations on isolated one-dimensional
chains. The possibility of achieving high mobilities via
two-dimensional transport in self-organized conjugated lamellae is
important for applications of polymer transistors in logic circuits
and active matrix displays."
This 1999 report from Nature,
from a team that includes conjugated-polymer pioneer Richard H. Friend
of the University of Cambridge, was cited 19 times in
current journal articles indexed in the ISI database during May-June
2001. No other paper in chemistry, apart from reviews, was cited as
many times during that two-month period. Prior to the most recent
bimonthly count, citations to the paper have accrued as follows:
March-April 2001: 12
January-February 2001: 4
November-December 2000: 1
September-October 2000: 4
July-August 2000: 3
May-June 2000: 3
March-April 2000: 3
Total citations to date: 49
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