Nature Communications 2015-01-01

High mobility emissive organic semiconductor.

Jie Liu, Hantang Zhang, Huanli Dong, Lingqiang Meng, Longfeng Jiang, Lang Jiang, Ying Wang, Junsheng Yu, Yanming Sun, Wenping Hu, Alan J Heeger

Index: Nat. Commun. 6 , 10032, (2015)

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Abstract

The integration of high charge carrier mobility and high luminescence in an organic semiconductor is challenging. However, there is need of such materials for organic light-emitting transistors and organic electrically pumped lasers. Here we show a novel organic semiconductor, 2,6-diphenylanthracene (DPA), which exhibits not only high emission with single crystal absolute florescence quantum yield of 41.2% but also high charge carrier mobility with single crystal mobility of 34 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1). Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on DPA give pure blue emission with brightness up to 6,627 cd m(-2) and turn-on voltage of 2.8 V. 2,6-Diphenylanthracene OLED arrays are successfully driven by DPA field-effect transistor arrays, demonstrating that DPA is a high mobility emissive organic semiconductor with potential in organic optoelectronics.