Boron-Stabilized Planar Neutral π-Radicals with Well-Balanced Ambipolar Charge-Transport Properties
- Tomokatsu Kushida ,
- Shusuke Shirai ,
- Naoki Ando ,
- Toshihiro Okamoto ,
- Hiroyuki Ishii ,
- Hiroyuki Matsui ,
- Masakazu Yamagishi ,
- Takafumi Uemura ,
- Junto Tsurumi ,
- Shun Watanabe
, - Jun Takeya , and
- Shigehiro Yamaguchi

Abstract

Organic neutral π-monoradicals are promising semiconductors with balanced ambipolar carrier-transport abilities, which arise from virtually identical spatial distribution of their singly occupied and unoccupied molecular orbitals, SOMO(α) and SOMO(β), respectively. Herein, we disclose a boron-stabilized triphenylmethyl radical that shows outstanding thermal stability and resistance toward atmospheric conditions due to the substantial spin delocalization. The radical is used to fabricate organic Mott-insulator transistors that operate at room temperature, wherein the radical exhibits well-balanced ambipolar carrier transport properties.
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