Triphenylamine derivatives (TPAs) are organic functional materials well known for their semiconducting charge transport and redox properties. Such features characterize applications in the field of electronics, instance...

A novel naphthalimide derivative endowed with a diketone functionality has been synthesized and used to develop a family of highly symmetric, flat, n-type semiconducting naphthalimide-based pyrazinacenes. By changing the symmetry of these compounds and the number of naphthalimide constituents, fine tuning of their electrochemical, photophysical, and morphological properties is achieved.

— In the large family of ternary compounds one could expect to find systematic trends for the various physical properties. For instance the geometrical arrangement of the atoms is, in most ternaries, tetrahedral. Beyond qualitative laws very few quantitative relationships have been established between crystallographic structures and other physical and chemical properties Topics such as tetrahed...

The potential of organic semiconductor-based devices for light generation is demonstrated by the commercialization of display technologies based on organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Nonetheless, exciton quenching and photon loss processes still limit OLED efficiency and brightness. Organic light-emitting transistors (OLETs) are alternative light sources combining, in the same architecture,...

Synopsis We review the results of recent studies of the elastic and inelastic neutron scattering from a variety of heavy fermion compounds. This class of materials exhibits a rich variety of ground states: an-tiferromagnetically ordered, superconducting, semiconducting, and paramagnetic. Neutron scattering from single crystals and powders has been a productive tool for probing the magnetic orde...

Covalent organic frameworks are a class of crystalline organic porous materials that can utilize π-π-stacking interactions as a driving force for the crystallization of polygonal sheets to form layered frameworks and ordered pores. However, typical examples are chemically unstable and lack intrasheet π-conjugation, thereby significantly limiting their applications. Here we report a chemically s...

Perovskite ferroelectric materials exhibit the novel ferroelectric photovoltaic effect, where photon-excited electron–hole pairs can be separated by ferroelectric polarization. Especially, semiconducting ferroelectric materials with small band gaps ( ) Eg have been extensively studied for applications in solar energy conversion. Traditional route for creating semiconducting ferroelectrics requi...

We demonstrate multilevel data storage in organic ferroelectric resistive memory diodes consisting of a phase-separated blend of P(VDF-TrFE) and a semiconducting polymer. The dynamic behaviour of the organic ferroelectric memory diode can be described in terms of the inhomogeneous field mechanism (IFM) model where the ferroelectric components are regarded as an assembly of randomly distributed ...

In this work, the insulating properties of poly(4-vinylphenol) (PVP) and SU-8 (MicroChem, Westborough, MA, USA) dielectrics are analyzed and compared with each other. We further investigate the performance behavior of organic field-effect transistors based on a semiconducting liquid-crystal polymer (LCP) using both dielectric materials and evaluate the results regarding the processability. Due ...