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High Electron Mobility in Room‐Temperature Discotic Liquid‐Crystalline Perylene Diimides
Author(s) -
An Z.,
Yu J.,
Jones S. C.,
Barlow S.,
Yoo S.,
Domercq B.,
Prins P.,
Siebbeles L. D. A.,
Kippelen B.,
Marder S. R.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.200500027
Subject(s) - perylene , diimide , discotic liquid crystal , materials science , amorphous solid , electron , mobilities , crystallography , liquid crystal , optoelectronics , optics , fluorescence , chemistry , physics , social science , quantum mechanics , sociology
Perylene diimide discotic columnar liquid‐crystalline mesophases (see Figure) can show very high electron mobilities under ambient conditions. While the mobilities are strongly dependent on sample morphology and processing conditions, mobilities as high as 1.3 cm 2 V –1 s –1 are measured, greater than that of amorphous silicon.