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Study of Charge Transport Properties of Discotic Liquid Crystal Semiconductors

Discotic liquid crystals (DLCs), which consist of disk-like molecules, have recently attracted considerable attention for their interesting electronic properties. One of the most significant of DLCs is their high charge carrier mobility in their columnar structure. Recently the number of researches have been increasing on applications such as organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), photovoltaic devices (OPV) and organic field-effect transistors (OFET).
The purpose of the study is to investigate the mobility of different alignment of DLCs. The material used in the present study is HDBP-8. We will show that the stack of DLCs depended on temperature strongly. We will also discuss charge transport properties of homeotropic alignment. Carrier transport has been investigated in the hexagonal columnar (Colh) mesophase of HDBP-8 using time-of-flight (TOF) technique. The carrier mobilities are up to the order of 10-3 cm2V-1s-1 for both positive and negative charges with weak dependence on the electric fields.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0813112-121219
Date13 August 2012
CreatorsJian, Fei-Syong
ContributorsChin-Ping Yu, Li-Yin Chen, Chi-Wi Ong
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0813112-121219
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