Multiple Resonance Fluorophores as Potential High-Mobility Organic Semiconductorsстатья
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Аннотация:Many organic electronic devices, especially organic field-effect transistors — basic elements of logic circuits — require organic semiconductors with high charge-carrier mobility. In this study, we show computationally that such high mobilities can be observed in multiple resonance (MR) organic fluorophores — novel class of compounds, which are widely studied for a very different purpose, namely as narrow-band (color-pure) emitters in organic light-emitting diodes. Specifically, DFT calculations reveal small reorganization energies for hole or electron transfer, which are needed for efficient charge transport within the widely used hopping model, in many MR compounds. The effect of small changes in molecular structure on reorganization energy is observed and explained. Finally, we show that crystals of MR compounds can have large transfer integrals, e.g. if the MR cores bear appropriate substituents. For one of such MR fluorophores with known crystal structure, electron mobility exceeding 1 cm2V-1s-1 is predicted withing the hopping model, which typically underestimates the mobility. We anticipate that our findings will stimulate charge-transport studies in MR fluorophores and eventually result in experimental discovery of high-mobility materials based on these compounds.