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Sakai, NobuyaWarren, Ross
Zhang, Fengyu
Nayak, Simantini
Liu, Junliang
Kesava, Sameer V.
Lin, Yen-Hung
Biswal, Himansu S.
Lin, Xin
Grovenor, Chris
Malinauskas, Tadas
Basu, Aniruddha

Anthopoulos, Thomas D.

Getautis, Vytautas
Kahn, Antoine
Riede, Moritz
Nayak, Pabitra K.
Snaith, Henry J.
KAUST Department
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
Material Science and Engineering Program
KAUST Grant Number
OSR-2019-CRG8-4095OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079
Date
2021-04-22Online Publication Date
2021-04-22Print Publication Date
2021-09Embargo End Date
2021-10-22Submitted Date
2019-06-12Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/668909
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Electronic doping of organic semiconductors is essential for their usage in highly efficient optoelectronic devices. Although molecular and metal complex-based dopants have already enabled significant progress of devices based on organic semiconductors, there remains a need for clean, efficient and low-cost dopants if a widespread transition towards larger-area organic electronic devices is to occur. Here we report dimethyl sulfoxide adducts as p-dopants that fulfil these conditions for a range of organic semiconductors. These adduct-based dopants are compatible with both solution and vapour-phase processing. We explore the doping mechanism and use the knowledge we gain to 'decouple' the dopants from the choice of counterion. We demonstrate that asymmetric p-doping is possible using solution processing routes, and demonstrate its use in metal halide perovskite solar cells, organic thin-film transistors and organic light-emitting diodes, which showcases the versatility of this doping approach.Citation
Sakai, N., Warren, R., Zhang, F., Nayak, S., Liu, J., Kesava, S. V., … Snaith, H. J. (2021). Adduct-based p-doping of organic semiconductors. Nature Materials. doi:10.1038/s41563-021-00980-xSponsors
This research has mainly received funding from the European Commission (PERTPV- agreement no. 763977) and EPSRC (EP/M005143/1 and EP/S004947/1). M.R. has received funding from the EC FP 7 MSCA—Career Integration Grant (630864) and M.R. and S.V.K. acknowledge funding from the EPSRC WAFT project (EP/M015173/1). R.W. is supported by EPSRC CDT Plastic Electronics (EP/L016702/1). P.K.N. acknowledges support from the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India, under Project Identification no. RTI 4007 and SERB India core research grant (CRG/2020/003877). F.Z., X.L. and A.K. acknowledge funding from National Science Foundation under grants DMR-1506097 and DMR-1807797. S.N. acknowledges Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions individual fellowships (grant agreement no. 659306) and a start-up grant from CSIR-IMMT, India. T.M. and V.G. acknowledge funding from European Regional Development Fund (project no. 01.2.2-LMT-K-718-03-0040) under a grant agreement with the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT). T.D.A. and A.B. are grateful to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Centre and KAUST Office for Sponsored Research (OSR) for the financial support under award no: OSR-2019-CRG8-4095, no. OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079. J.L. and C.G. are grateful for support for the NanoSIMS facility from EPSRC under grant EP/M018237/1. We thank I. McPherson for his help in mass spectrometry measurements and M. Heeney for providing the C16IDT-BT polymer.Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal
Nature MaterialsPubMed ID
33888905Additional Links
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-021-00980-xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1038/s41563-021-00980-x
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