Thermally Activated Aromatic Ionic Dopants (TA‐AIDs) Enabling Stable Doping, Orthogonal Processing and Direct Patterning

Abstract: Doping plays a critical role in organic electronics, and dopant design has been central in the development of functional and stable doping. In this study, there is departure from conventional molecular dopants and a new class of dopants are reported – aromatic ionic dopants (AIDs). AIDs consist of a pair of aromatic cation and anion that are responsible for molecular doping reaction and charge balancing separately. It is shown that the first AID made from cycloheptatrienyl (tropylium) cation and pentacyanocyclopentadienide anion (PCCp), abbreviated as T‐PCCp, can function as an effective p‐type dopant to dope polydioxythiophenes. Here, tropylium cation induces the doping reaction while the PCCp anion stabilizes the generated polarons and bipolarons. With T‐PCCp, a highly doped (≈120 S/cm) and stable system is achieved up to 150 °C, an orthogonal (sequential) solution processing resulting from the immiscibility of the dopant and the polymer host, and a high‐resolution direct micropatterning with laser writing resulted from a thermally activated doping process.

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Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Thermally Activated Aromatic Ionic Dopants (TA‐AIDs) Enabling Stable Doping, Orthogonal Processing and Direct Patterning ; day:11 ; month:12 ; year:2022 ; extent:12
Advanced functional materials ; (11.12.2022) (gesamt 12)

Creator
Ke, Zhifan
Ahmed, Mustafa H.
Abtahi, Ashkan
Hsu, Shih‐Hsin
Wu, Wenting
Espenship, Michael F.
Baustert, Kyle N.
Graham, Kenneth R.
Laskin, Julia
Pan, Liang
Mei, Jianguo

DOI
10.1002/adfm.202211522
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022121214095387312977
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  • Ke, Zhifan
  • Ahmed, Mustafa H.
  • Abtahi, Ashkan
  • Hsu, Shih‐Hsin
  • Wu, Wenting
  • Espenship, Michael F.
  • Baustert, Kyle N.
  • Graham, Kenneth R.
  • Laskin, Julia
  • Pan, Liang
  • Mei, Jianguo

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