title: A "kite" shaped styryl end-capped benzo[2,1-b:3,4-b']dithiophene with high electrical performances in organic thin film transistors.
abstract: The bridging of distyryl-bithiophene leads to a kite shape of the conjugated system. This twist is not like twistacenes or twist deformation in alpha-oligothiophenes but a curvature such as in bowl shaped systems. Initially perceived to be undesirable, this new semiconductor in OTFT devices provides excellent performances in air, mu = 0.1 cm(2)/V.s, I(on)/I(off) > 10(6), S < 4 V/decade, higher by a factor of 5 to the parent unbridged coplanar analogue.
authors.affiliation: Ingenierie Moleculaire et Materiaux Fonctionnels, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille (CINaM), CNRS UPR 3118, Campus Luminy, Aix Marseille Universite, Marseille, France.
authors.forename: Yahia
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Didane
authors.forename: Georg H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Mehl
authors.forename: Atsufumi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kumagai
authors.forename: Noriyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yoshimoto
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Videlot-Ackermann
authors.forename: Hugues
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brisset