Semiconductors and electronic devices generated therefrom
View Patent ↗An electronic device containing a polymer of Formula (I), Formula (II), or mixtures, or isomers thereof wherein each R 1 through R 10 is independently hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, halogen, arylalkyl, cyano, or nitro providing that R 1 and R 2 exclude halogen, nitro and cyano; a and b represent the number of rings; and n represents the number of repeating groups or moieties.
1. An electronic device comprising a semiconductor selected from the group consisting of at least one of Formula (I), Formula (II), or mixtures thereof
wherein each R 1 through R 10 is independently hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, halogen, arylalkyl, cyano, or nitro providing that R 1 and R 2 exclude halogen, nitro and cyano; a and b represent the number of rings; and n represents the number of repeating groups or moieties.
2. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein n represents a number of from about 2 to about 5,000, or from 2 to about 2,000.
3. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein n represents a number of from about 100 to about 1,000.
4. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein n represents a number of from 2 to about 50.
5. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least one of R 1 to R 10 is alkyl.
6. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least one of R 1 to R 10 is aryl.
7. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least one of R 3 to R 10 is halogen.
8. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least one of R 3 to R 10 is cyano or nitro.
9. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein R 1 and R 2 are independently dodecyl, pentylphenyl, or octylphenyl.
10. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said semiconductor is a p-type semiconductor generated from monomers containing two tertiary amines and two thieno groups, and which p-type semiconductor is one of the following formulas (1)-(4):
wherein at least one of R 1 to R 6 is alkyl or aryl, and n is a number of from 2 to about 100.
11. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein each R is aryl containing from 6 to about 36 carbon atoms.
12. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein alkyl and alkoxy contain from 1 to about 25 carbon atoms, and halogen is chloride, fluoride, iodide, or bromide.
13. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein alkyl or alkoxy contains from about 1 to about 12 carbon atoms.
14. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein n is a number of from about 10 to about 200, or from about 20 to about 100.
15. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein n is about 50.
16. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein aryl contains from 6 to about 48 carbon atoms.
17. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein aryl contains from 6 to about 18 carbon atoms.
18. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said semiconductor is of Formula I.
19. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said semiconductor is of Formula II.
20. A thin film transistor comprised of a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate dielectric layer, a source electrode and a drain electrode, and in contact with the source/drain electrodes and the gate dielectric layer a semiconductor layer comprised of at least one semiconducting component having one of the following formulas:
wherein each R 1 through R 10 is independently hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, halogen, arylalkyl, cyano, or nitro providing that R 1 and R 2 exclude halogen, nitro and cyano; a and b represent the number of rings; and n represents the number of repeating groups or moieties.
21. A device in accordance with claim 20 wherein alkyl is butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl, undecyl, dodecyl, tridecyl, tetradecyl, pentadecyl, hexadecyl, heptadecyl, octadecyl, nonadecyl, or eicosanyl.
22. A device in accordance with claim 20 wherein said semiconducting component is one of the following formulas (1)-(4):
wherein at least one of R 1 to R 6 is alkyl, aryl, or arylalkyl, and n is a number of from 2 to about 200.
23. A device in accordance with claim 20 wherein said semiconducting component is one of the following formulas (5)-(8):
wherein n is from 2 to about 100.
24. A device in accordance with claim 20 wherein said substrate is a plastic sheet of a polyester, a polycarbonate, or a polyimide; said gate source and drain electrodes are each independently comprised of silver, gold, nickel, aluminum, chromium, platinum, or indium titanium oxide, or a conductive polymer; and said gate dielectric layer is comprised of inorganic nitrides or oxides, or organic polymers, silicon nitride, silicon oxide.
25. A device in accordance with claim 20 wherein said semiconductor layer is deposited by solution processes of spin coating, stamp printing, screen printing, or jet printing.
26. An electronic device comprising a semiconductive component and wherein said device is a thin film transistor, and said component is selected from the group consisting of Formula (I), Formula (II), and mixtures thereof
wherein at least one of R 1 to R 10 is a suitable hydrocarbon; a and b represent the number of rings; and n represents the number of repeating units.
27. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said arylalkyl contains from 7 to about 37 carbon atoms.
28. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said R 1 to R 10 is methyl, ethyl, propyl, butyl, pentyl, hexyl, heptyl, octyl, nonyl, decyl, undecyl, dodecyl, tridecyl, tetradecyl, pentadecyl, hexadecyl, heptadecyl, octadecyl, nonadecyl, eicosanyl, hydroxymethyl, hydroxyethyl, hydroxypropyl, hydroxybutyl, hydroxypentyl, hydroxyhexyl, hydroxyheptyl, hydroxyoctyl, hydroxynonyl, hydroxydecyl, hydroxyundecyl, hydroxydodecyl, methoxyethyl, methoxypropyl, methoxybutyl, methoxypentyl, methoxyoctyl, trifluoromethyl, perfluoroethyl, perfluoropropyl, pertluorobutyl, perfluoropentyl, perfluorohexyl, perfluoroheptyl, perfluorooctyl, perfluorononyl, perfluorodecyl, perfluoroundecyl, or perfluorodecyl.
29. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein said aryl or arylalkyl is phenyl, methylphenyl, ethylphenyl, propylphenyl, butylphenyl, pentylphenyl, hexylphenyl, heptylphenyl, octylphenyl, nonylphenyl, decylphenyl, undecylphenyl, dodecylphenyl, tridecylphenyl, tetradecylphenyl, pentadecylphenyl, hexadecylphenyl, heptadecylphenyl, or octadecylphenyl.
30. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein a is a number of from zero to about 15.
31. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein b is a number of from zero to about 15.
32. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein each a and b is a number of from about 1 to about 4.
33. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein at least one of R 3 to R 10 is alkyl with from 1 to about 12 carbon atoms, alkoxy with from 1 to about 12 carbon atoms, or aryl with from 6 to about 42 carbon atoms.