Charge Mobility Enhancement for Conjugated DPP-Selenophene Polymer by Simply Replacing One Bulky Branching Alkyl Chain with Linear One at Each DPP Unit

We demonstrate a simple, but efficient, approach for improving the semiconducting performances of DPP-based conjugated D-A polymers. This approach involves the replacement of one bulky branching alkyl chain with the linear one at each DPP unit in regular polymer PDPPSe-10 and PDPPSe-12. The UV–vis absorption, Raman spectra, PDS data, and theoretical calculations support that the replacement of bulky branching chains with linear ones can weaken the steric hindrance, and accordingly conjugated backbones become more planar and rigid. GIWAXS data show that the incorporation of linear alkyl chains as in PDPPSe-10 and PDPPSe-12 is beneficial for side-chain interdigitation and interchain dense packing, leading to improvement of interchain packing order and thin film crystallinity by comparing with PDPPSe, which contains branching alkyl chains. On the basis of field-effect transistor (FET) studies, charge mobilities of PDPPSe-10 and PDPPSe-12 are remarkably enhanced. Hole mobilities of PDPPSe-10 and PDPPSe-12 in ...

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