Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer comprising a unit of formula and an electronic device comprising the polymer as semiconducting material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer comprising a unit of formula and an electronic device comprising the polymer as semiconducting material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to semiconducting compounds, materials prepared from such compounds, methods of preparing such compounds and semiconductor materials, as well as various compositions, composites, and devices that incorporate the compounds and semiconductor materials. The semiconducting compounds can have higher electron-transport efficiency and higher solubility in common solvents compared to related representative compounds.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer comprising a unit of formula The present invention also provides an electronic device comprising the polymer as semiconducting material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer comprising a unit of formula and an electronic device comprising the polymer as semiconducting material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer comprising a unit of formula The present invention also provides an electronic device comprising the polymer as semiconducting material.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymer comprising a unit of formula and an electronic device comprising the polymer as semiconducting material.

Abstract: Disclosed are new semiconductor materials prepared from dithienylvinylene copolymers with aromatic or heteroaromatic ?-conjugated systems. Such copolymers, with little or no post-deposition heat treatment, can exhibit high charge carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics. In addition, the polymers of the present teachings can possess certain processing advantages such as improved solution-processability and low annealing temperature.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a circuit includes chemically bonding a coating to a plurality of nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are dispersed in a medium comprising organic molecules. An organic semiconductor channel is formed that comprises the medium. A plurality of electrodes is formed over the substrate. The electrodes are located to function as two of a gate electrode, a drain electrode, and a source electrode of a field-effect transistor.

Abstract: A composition, comprising a medium of organic molecules, a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed in the medium, and a coating chemically bonded to a surface of the nanoparticles, wherein the composition is a semiconducting solid.

Abstract: A method includes combining organic semiconductor molecules and plasticizer molecules to form over a substrate a solid organic semiconductor channel. The channel may comprise at least about 50% by weight of the plasticizer molecules.

Abstract: A polymer comprising repeating units A and optionally repeating units B wherein Z=S, Se, N—R and O; W is at each occurrence independently a monocyclic or polycylic moiety optionally substituted with 1-4 Ra groups; Y, at each occurrence, is independently a divalent C1-6 alkyl group, a divalent C1-6 haloalkyl group, or a covalent bond; c is from 1 to 6.

Abstract: A composition, comprising a solid mixture of organic semiconductor molecules and plasticizer molecules.

Abstract: Disclosed are new semiconductor materials prepared from rylene-(?-acceptor) copolymers. Such copolymers can exhibit high n-type carrier mobility and/or good current modulation characteristics. In addition, the polymers of the present teachings can possess certain processing advantages such as solution-processability and/or good stability at ambient conditions.

Abstract: The present teachings provide semiconducting compounds, materials prepared from such compounds, methods of preparing such compounds and semiconductor materials, as well as various compositions, composites, and devices that incorporate the compounds and semiconductor materials. Specifically, compounds of the present teachings can have higher electron-transport efficiency and higher solubility in common solvents compared to related representative compounds.

Abstract: Techniques including steps of: providing a support body; forming an organic semiconductor composition body including an organic semiconductor composition on the support body, no more than 10% by weight of the organic semiconductor composition being pentacene; providing a first organic dielectric composition mobilized in a first liquid medium, the organic semiconductor composition being insoluble in the first liquid medium; and forming a first organic dielectric composition body from the first organic dielectric composition on the organic semiconductor composition body. Techniques in which an organic semiconductor composition body is formed on an organic dielectric composition body. Apparatus having an organic dielectric composition body on an organic semiconductor composition body.

Abstract: A molecule including a chain-like core region having two ends and having at least three conjugated aromatic rings; and including at the two ends, branched groups R1 and R2 respectively, each including a C5- to C20-alkyl group. A semiconducting composition including the molecule.

Abstract: A composition, comprising a solid mixture of organic semiconductor molecules and plasticizer molecules.

Abstract: A composition, comprising organic polymer molecules, and organic nonpolymeric molecules, wherein the composition is a semiconducting solid. The composition includes a distribution of crystal domains of the polymer molecules and inter-domain regions between the crystal domains, a concentration of polymer molecules being higher in the crystal domains than in the inter-domain regions, and a concentration of nonpolymeric molecules being higher in the inter-domain regions than in the crystal domains.

Abstract: A composition, comprising a medium of organic molecules, a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed in the medium, and a coating chemically bonded to a surface of the nanoparticles, wherein the composition is a semiconducting solid.