Nanoparticles of Cu2ZnSnS4 as performance enhancing additives for organic field-effect transistors

Kevin, Punarja and Malik, Mohammad Azad and O'Brien, Paul and Cameron, Joseph and Taylor, Rupert G. D. and Findlay, Neil J. and Inigo, Anto R. and Skabara, Peter J. (2016) Nanoparticles of Cu2ZnSnS4 as performance enhancing additives for organic field-effect transistors. Journal of Materials Chemistry. C, 4 (22). pp. 5109-5115. ISSN 2050-7526

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    Abstract

    The addition of oleylamine coated Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) nanoparticles to solutions of an organic semiconductor used to fabricate organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) has been investigated. The oligothiophene-based small molecule 5T-TTF and the polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) were each applied in the transistors with various concentrations of CZTS (5-20%). Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was applied to characterise the surface morphology of the OFETs. The use of 5 and 10 wt% of the CZTS nanoparticles in 5T-TTF and P3HT solutions, respectively, appears to be a simple and effective way of improving OFET performance.

    Author(s):Kevin, Punarja, Malik, Mohammad Azad, O'Brien, Paul, Cameron, Joseph ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8622-8353, Taylor, Rupert G. D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0841-8298, Findlay, Neil J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1417-3311, Inigo, Anto R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8776-4008 and Skabara, Peter J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7319-0464
    Item type:Article
    ID code:56297
    Keywords:organic semiconductors, surphase morhpology, atomic force microscopy, Chemistry, Chemistry(all)
    Subjects:Science > Chemistry
    Department:Faculty of Science > Pure and Applied Chemistry
    Technology and Innovation Centre > Photonics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:06 May 2016 12:51
    Last modified:15 Jan 2020 04:31
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/56297
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