Doping Approaches for Organic Semiconductors
Review article, 2022
Electronic doping in organic materials has remained an elusive concept for several decades. It drew considerable attention in the early days in the quest for organic materials with high electrical conductivity, paving the way for the pioneering work on pristine organic semiconductors (OSCs) and their eventual use in a plethora of applications. Despite this early trend, however, recent strides in the field of organic electronics have been made hand in hand with the development and use of dopants to the point that are now ubiquitous. Here, we give an overview of all important advances in the area of doping of organic semiconductors and their applications. We first review the relevant literature with particular focus on the physical processes involved, discussing established mechanisms but also newly proposed theories. We then continue with a comprehensive summary of the most widely studied dopants to date, placing particular emphasis on the chemical strategies toward the synthesis of molecules with improved functionality. The processing routes toward doped organic films and the important doping-processing-nanostructure relationships, are also discussed. We conclude the review by highlighting how doping can enhance the operating characteristics of various organic devices.
Author
Alberto D. Scaccabarozzi
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Aniruddha Basu
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Filip Aniés
Imperial College London
Jian Liu
Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Applied Chemistry
Osnat Zapata-Arteaga
Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB)
Ross Warren
Humboldt University of Berlin
Yuliar Firdaus
Research Center for Population - Indonesian Institute of Sciences
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Mohamad Insan Nugraha
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Y. B. Lin
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
M. Campoy-Quiles
Institute of Material Science of Barcelona (ICMAB)
Norbert Koch
Helmholtz
Humboldt University of Berlin
Christian Müller
Chalmers, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Applied Chemistry
Leonidas Tsetseris
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Martin Heeney
Imperial College London
Thomas D. Anthopoulos
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Chemical Reviews
0009-2665 (ISSN) 1520-6890 (eISSN)
Vol. 122 4 4420-4492Double Doping of Semiconducting Polymers
Swedish Research Council (VR) (2018-03824), 2018-01-01 -- 2021-12-31.
Subject Categories
Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified
Materials Chemistry
Condensed Matter Physics
DOI
10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00581
PubMed
34793134