Three alternating conjugated polymers of isoindigo[7
6-
g
]isoindigo (DⅡD) and vinylene
i.e
.
P0F
P2F
and
P4F
in which DⅡD units contain 0
2 and 4 fluorine (F) atoms
respectively
were synthesized
via
Stille polycondensation. The number-average molecular weights (
M
n
) were 3.94×104
4.45×104 and 1.93×104 for
P0F
P2F
and
P4F
respectively. All these three polymers are largely planar and their frontier molecular orbitals are well-delocalized along conjugated backbones as revealed by density functional theory (DFT) calculation. Their 5 wt% weight loss temperatures are above 360℃. They all have very broad absorption spectra in the range of 400~1000 nm and their optical band-gaps are
ca
. 1.25 eV. With an increase of F atoms
both the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) and the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energy levels decreased
from -5.26 and -3.57 eV for
P0F
to -5.48 and -3.68 eV for
P2F
and further to -5.62 and -3.82 eV for
P4F
. Thin films of the polymers were characterized by X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy (AFM). All these polymers formed ordered structure in their films with conjugated backbone adopting an edge-on arrangement. The portion of the ordered structure in the films increased from
P0F
to
P4F
along with the increase in F-atoms in DⅡD unit. Top-gate and bottom-contact (TGBC) organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) of the polymers were fabricated with poly(methylmethacrylate) as dielectric
via
solution spin casting with
o
-dichlorobenzene. The device performance was measured under ambient conditions. With increasing the number of F atoms
the transfer behaviour of the devices based on the polymers changed from ambipolar to unipolar n-type.
P0F
and
P2F
were ambipolar polymers. Their hole mobility was 0.11 and 0.30 cm
2
V
-1
s
-1
respectively
and the electron mobility was 0.22 and 1.19 cm
2
V
-1
s
-1
respectively.
P4F
was a typical unipolar n-type semiconductor and its electron mobility was up to 0.18 cm
2
V
-1
s
-1
. The relatively lower mobility of
P4F
was attributed to its lower molecular weight. This study shows that DⅡD is a promising building block for conjugated polymers with high mobility and low band-gap.
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