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Fluoro-substituted DPP-bisthiophene conjugated polymer with azides in the side chains as ambipolar semiconductor and photoresist

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Photoresists are essential for the fabrication of flexible electronics through all-photolithographic processes. Single component semiconducting photoresist exhibits both semiconducting and photo-patterning properties, and as a result, the device fabrication process can be simplified. However, the design of semiconducting polymeric photoresist with ambipolar semiconducting property remains challenging. In this paper, we report a single component semiconducting photoresist (PFDPPF4T-N3) by incorporating azide groups and noncovalent conformation locks into the side alkyl chains and conjugated backbones of a diketopyrrolopyrrole-based conjugated polymer, respectively. The results reveal that PFDPP4FT-N3 exhibits ambipolar semiconducting property with hole and electron mobilities up to 1.12 and 1.17 cm2 V−1 s−1, respectively. Moreover, field effect transistors with the individual photo-patterned thin films of PFDPPF4T-N3 also show ambipolar semiconducting behavior with hole and electron mobilities up to 0.66 and 0.80 cm2 V−1 s−1, respectively. These results offer a simple yet effective design strategy for high-performance single component semiconducting photoresists, which hold great potential for flexible electronics processed by all photolithography.

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFE0200700), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (22175081, 21790363, 61890943, 22021002, 22090021, 22075293), the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDPB13), the CAS-Croucher Funding Scheme for Joint Laboratories, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLM202010) and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalysis (20210701). We thank beamline of BL14B1 of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) for providing the beam.

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    Wenlin Jiang, Xiaobo Yu, Cheng Li, Xisha Zhang, Guanxin Zhang & Deqing Zhang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC), Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China

    Zitong Liu

  3. School of Chemical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China

    Wenlin Jiang, Xiaobo Yu, Xisha Zhang & Deqing Zhang

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Fluoro-Substituted DPP-Bisthiophene Conjugated Polymer with Azides in the Side Chains as Ambipolar Semiconductor and Photoresist

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Jiang, W., Yu, X., Li, C. et al. Fluoro-substituted DPP-bisthiophene conjugated polymer with azides in the side chains as ambipolar semiconductor and photoresist. Sci. China Chem. 65, 1791–1797 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-022-1279-x

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