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684848 - Pentacene

684848 Aldrich

Pentacene

sublimed grade, ≥99.9% trace metals basis

CAS Number 135-48-8
Empirical Formula (Hill Notation) C₂₂H₁₄
Molecular Weight 278.35
Beilstein Registry Number 1912418
EC Number 205-193-7
MDL number MFCD00003710

Properties

Related Categories	Donor Materials, Materials Science, Organic Field Effect Transistor (OFET) Materials, Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) Materials, Organic and Printed Electronics, Small Molecules, Sublimed Materials, p-Type Organic Semiconductors, p-Type Small Molecules More...
grade	sublimed grade
assay	≥99.9% trace metals basis
mp	372-374 °C (subl.)
solubility	organic solvents: slightly soluble ((lit))
Orbital energy	HOMO 5 eV
	LUMO 3 eV
OPV Device Performance	ITO/pentacene/C60/BCP/Al¹ • Short-circuit current density (J_sc): 15 mA/cm² • Open-circuit voltage (V_oc): 0.36 V • Fill Factor (FF): 0.5 • Power Conversion Efficiency (PCE): 2.7 %
semiconductor properties	P-type (mobility=0.4-3 cm²/V·s) (on/off ratio=1E5-1E8)

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Description

General description

TGA/DSC Lot specific traces available upon request

Packaging

1 g in glass bottle

Protocols & Applications

Thin Film Transistor Device Preparation and Performance using Triple-Sublimed Pentacene

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Articles

Optoelectronic Devices Based on Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-containing Conjugated Small Molecules

Optoelectronic devices such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), solar cells, and light-emitting field effect transistors (FETs) that utilize organic materials as their light harvesting and/or charge tra...
Jianhua Liu and Thuc-Quyen Nguyen
Material Matters 7.1
Keywords: Absorption, Alkylations, Bacterial conjugations, Biochemistry, Brominations, Building blocks, Nucleic acid annealing, Nucleic acid hybridization, Purification, Recombination, Solar cells, Solvents, Spectroscopy, Stille coupling, Suzuki coupling, Ultraviolet-Visible spectroscopy

Organic Materials for Thin Film Transistors

Flexible electronic circuits, displays, and sensors based on organic active materials will enable future generations of electronics products that may eventually enter the mainstream electronics marke...
Prof. Zhenan Bao
Material Matters 2007, 2.3, 4.
Keywords: Building blocks, Deposition, Electronics, Nanotubes, Semiconductor

Self-Assembly in Organic Thin Film Transistors for Flexible Electronic Devices

Flexible electronic circuits and displays based on organic active materials are future generations of products that may eventually enter mainstream electronics market. The advantages in using organic...
Professor Zhenan Bao
Material Matters 2006, 1.2, 11.
Keywords: Building blocks, Crystallization, Deposition, Electronics, Polymerization reactions, Semiconductor, Spin coating

Silylethyne-Substituted Pentacenes

Research into the use of organic semiconductors in field-effect transistors (FETs) began in earnest in the mid-1990s,1 after early exciting results from vapor-deposited small molecule semiconductors....
John E. Anthony^*
Material Matters 2009, 4.3, 58.
Keywords: Crystallization, Deposition, Electronics, Electrophoretic display, Evaporation, Organic electronics, Semiconductor, Separation, Solar cells, Substitutions

Papers

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1. Efficient thin-film organic solar cells based on pentacene/C60 heterojunctions Yoo, S.; et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 5427, (2004)

Control of open-circuit voltage in organic photovoltaic cells by inserting an ultrathin metal-phthalocyanine layer Kinoshita, Y.; Hasobe, T.; Murata, H. Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 083518, (2007)

Merck 14,7107

Beil. 5,IV,2721

FT-IR 1 (1), 968:B / FT-IR 2 (2), 1674:B / RegBook 1 (1), 1157:C / Sax 6, 2125 / Structure Index 1, 178:A:6

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