n‐Type Organic Semiconductors in Organic Electronics

Organic semiconductors have been the subject of intensive academic and commercial interest over the past two decades, and successful commercial devices incorporating them are slowly beginning to enter the market. Much of the focus has been on the development of hole transporting, or p-type, semiconductors that have seen a dramatic rise in performance over the last decade. Much less attention has been devoted to electron transporting, or so called n-type, materials, and in this paper we focus upon recent developments in several classes of n-type materials and the design guidelines used to develop them.

• NS
  National Science Foundation
• GI
  Georgia Institute of Technology
• NU
  Northwestern University
• UO
  University of Kentucky
• RS
  Royal Society
• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China
• MR
  Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, Harvard University
• EA
  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  Awards: EP/F056648/2, EP/F056648/1
• OO
  Office of Naval Research
• DO
  Division of Materials Research
• AF
  Air Force Office of Scientific Research