High-Performance Ambipolar and n-Type Emissive Semiconductors Based on Perfluorophenyl-Substituted Perylene and Anthracene.

Emissive organic semiconductors are highly demanding for organic light-emitting transistors (OLETs) and electrically pumped organic lasers (EPOLs). However, it remains a great challenge to obtain organic semiconductors with high carrier mobility and high photoluminescence quantum yield simultaneously. Here, a new design strategy is reported for highly emissive ambipolar and even n-type semiconductors by introducing perfluorophenyl groups into polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as perylene and anthracene. The results reveal that 3,9-diperfluorophenyl perylene (5FDPP) exhibits the ambipolar semiconducting property with hole and electron mobilities up to 0.12 and 1.89 cm 2 V -1 s -1 , and a photoluminescence quantum yield of 55%. One of the crystal forms of 5FDPA exhibits blue emission with an emission quantum yield of 52% and simultaneously shows the n-type semiconducting property with an electron mobility up to 2.65 cm 2 V -1 s -1 , which is the highest value among the reported organic emissive n-type semiconductors. Furthermore, crystals of 5FDPP are utilized to fabricate OLETs by using Ag as source-drain electrodes. The electroluminescence is detected in the transporting channels with an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of up to 2.2%, and the current density is up to 145 kA cm -2 , which are among the highest values for single-component OLETs with symmetric electrodes.