A high-performance organic field-effect transistor based on platinum(II) porphyrin: peripheral substituents on porphyrin ligand significantly affect film structure and charge mobility.
Organic field-effect transistors incorporating planar pi-conjugated metal-free macrocycles and their metal derivatives are fabricated by vacuum deposition. The crystal structures of [H2(OX)] (H(2)OX=etioporphyrin-I), [Cu(OX)], [Pt(OX)], and [Pt(TBP)] (H2TBP=tetra-(n-butyl)porphyrin) as determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD), reveal the absence of occluded solvent molecules. The field-effect transistors (FETs) made from thin films of all these metal-free macrocycles and their metal derivatives show a p-type semiconductor behavior with a charge mobility (mu) ranging from 10(-6) to 10(-1) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1). Annealing the as-deposited Pt(OX) film leads to the formation of a polycrystalline film that exhibits excellent overall charge transport properties with a charge mobility of up to 3.2 x 10(-1) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1), which is the best value reported for a metalloporphyrin. Compared with their metal derivatives, the field-effect transistors made from thin films of metal-free macrocycles (except tetra-(n-propyl)porphycene) have significantly lower mu values (3.0 x 10(-6)-3.7 x 10(-5) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1)).
Department of Chemistry and HKU-CAS, Joint laboratory on New Materials, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, HKSAR, China. cmche@hku.hk
Chi-Ming
CM
Che
Hai-Feng
HF
Xiang
Stephen Sin-Yin
SS
Chui
Zong-Xiang
ZX
Xu
V A L
VA
Roy
Jessie Jing
JJ
Yan
Wen-Fu
WF
Fu
P T
PT
Lai
Ian D
ID
Williams