Proceedings of International Conference Asia-Pacific Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics 2018 (AP-HOPV18)
Publication date: 27th October 2017
Recently, much interest for the development of high-mobility n-type organic semiconductors has arisen because of their essential roles for realizing high-performance optoelectronic devices, such as ambipolar organic field-effect transistors (FETs), organic and perovskite solar cells (OSCs/PSCs), and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Despite their wide range applicability, much less n-type organic semiconductors have been developed compared to remarkable progress of p-type ones due to the several issues including required high electron affinity, crystallinity, electron-trapping, and air-stability.
We have recently investigated on molecular designing and optimization of charge transport properties of naphthalene diimide (NDI)-based n-type small molecules. From simple substitution of functional alkyl, aromatic, or fused aromatic units at N and N’ positions of NDI derivatives, we could effectively control their molecular stacking modes and charge transport properties. This presentation will report on the elaboration of vertical and lateral electron mobility of NDI derivatives based on the controlled molecular stacking, and suggest an approach to improve high vertical electron mobility for the application of NDI derivatives as an electron transport layer in perovskite solar cells.