Alkyl substitution effect: A high mobility bistetracene derivatives

Tetracenes and their derivatives are widely used in organic semiconductors for the advantages of small reorganization energies and large electronic couplings. The influences of long alkyl chain on charge transfer mobility of two bistetracene derivatives are investigated theoretically. The results show that the introduction of long alkyl chains would lead to a more compact packing, and increase electronic coupling, but reduce intermolecular distance. However, the introduction of long alkyl chains has little influence on reorganization energy. This provides a new understanding of the introduction of long alkyl chain on designing new high efficiency organic semiconductors.