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High mobility organic semiconductors for field-effect transistors

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Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are attracting more and more attention due to their potential applications in low-cost, large-area and flexible electronic products. Organic semiconductors (OSCs) are the key components of OFETs and basically determine the device performance. The past five years have witnessed great progress of OSCs. OSCs used for OFETs have made rapid progress, with field-effect mobility much larger than that of amorphous silicon (0.5–1.0 cm2/(V s)) and of up to 10 cm2/(V s) or even higher. In this review, we demonstrate the latest progress of OSCs for OFETs, where more than 50 representative OSCs are highlighted and analyzed to give some valuable insights for this important but challenging field.

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Gao, X., Zhao, Z. High mobility organic semiconductors for field-effect transistors. Sci. China Chem. 58, 947–968 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-015-5399-5

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