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Tuning kinetic competitions to traverse the rich structural space of organic semiconductor thin films
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Polymers and Soft Matter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2015
Abstract
The chemical diversity of organic semiconductors coupled with the kinetic nature of film formation make it challenging to tune the structure of active-layer thin films in organic electronics across multiple length scales. We review techniques to tune aspects of film structure within a framework that accounts for the competition between the time available for structural development and the time required by the organic semiconductors to order, defined by a dimensionless time, τ, that describes the ratio of these two quantities. By considering these two competing time scales, we propose general guidelines to tune the film structure accordingly.
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