Rubrene has been involved in a considerable amount of research throughout its history. It is a benchmark high performance small-molecule organic semiconductor. Single-crystal transistors grown via physical vapor transport exhibit mobilities as large as 20 cm<sup>2</sup>/Vs. Rubrene has also shown to exhibit extraordinary reversible wrinkling in OFETs which makes this material an excellent candidate for flexible device applications. The problem with Rubrene is that solution-cast thin film transistors do not exhibit any carrier transport at all- likely due to the fact that Rubrene oxidizes within a matter of several minutes in chlorinated solvents and it forms disordered films when deposited. So why does Rubrene oxidize so readily in solution and how one can design derivatives that are chemically stable to enable functional thin film devices? In this talk I will discuss our recent efforts in single-crystal Rubrene devices. Discussion on new Rubrene derivatives and their enhanced chemical stability will also be presented.

Single crystal Rubrene: Tested and proven

253rd National Meeting (2017)

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.