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Unravelling Structure-Function Relationships in High Mobility Donor-Acceptor Co-Polymers

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posted on 2017-06-14, 02:04 authored by MASRUR MORSHED NAHID
Owing to their potential of low-cost, low-temperature, environmentally-friendly manufacturability on stretchable and flexible substrates, organic semiconductor technology has already entered into our everyday life. Organic Field-Effect Transistors (OFETs) in particular are of interest for application in radio frequency identification tags, wearable electronics, sensors and OLED TVs and mobile devices, just to name a few. In order to make organic electronics an everyday reality, solution-processable high-mobility Donor-Acceptor type conjugated polymers such as P(NDI2OD-T2), BFS4 and PCDTPT, play a pivotal role. This thesis investigates the structure-function properties of such D-A co-polymers through a combination of OFET measurements and microstructural characterisation, the latter has carried out with synchrotron- and neutron-based techniques.

History

Campus location

Australia

Principal supervisor

Chris McNeill

Year of Award

2017

Department, School or Centre

Materials Science and Engineering

Course

Doctor of Philosophy

Degree Type

Doctorate

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering