Title:Semiconducting Polymers - A Novel Trend in Organic Electronic Chemistry
VOLUME: 13 ISSUE: 6
Author(s):Jadwiga Soloducho, Dorota Zajac and Joanna Cabaj
Affiliation:Wroclaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemistry, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland.
Keywords:Semiconducting polymers, C-C coupling, polymerization, heterocyclic structures, grafting technologies, alkyl chains, halogenated
semiconductors.
Abstract:Organic semiconductors are significant as highly prospective materials of reasonable
costs for use in a broad range of organic electronics, i.e., light-emitting instruments,
FETs, as well as solar cells. Semiconductors built with organic materials maintain their processing
ability as related to polymeric units while also retaining their optical characteristics,
i.e., elevated absorption coefficients and field-effect mobility close to the value of formless
silicon. The explanation of valid arrangement-feature connections becomes crucial in the engineering
of useful and efficient semiconducting organic materials. This article summarizes
the most recent discoveries in the grafting of semiconducting polymeric structures onto different
solids for electronic tools, and also presents the effects of adaptable tails in semiconducting
organics. This includes information on how size is impacted, oddeven results, substitution
and localization, end groups, branching, and also discusses the connections stemming from the halogenation
of organic semiconductors.
