Presenter: Victoria Stanfill
Faculty Mentor: Michael Haley, Geri Richmond
Presentation Type: Poster 39
Primary Research Area: Science
Major: Chemistry
Funding Source: Presidential Undergraduate Research Scholars Program, $5000
Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are a type of organic electronic device that determine how and where charge flows throughout a system. They are important to the electronic industry because they are longer lasting and cheaper to synthesize than traditional silicon field-effect transistors. OFETs are ranked on their charge mobility, the speed and quality of the charge transfer. Diindenoanthracenes are a type of organic small molecule with potential to be used in OFETs because of their biradical character, giving them the ability to transport charge. Our research focuses on synthesizing a variety of diindenoanthracene derivatives so we have a large range of molecules with different electronic properties to test in devices. The ultimate goal is to increase the charge mobility of these molecules so that these electronic devices are comparable to traditional inorganic electronics. So far we have created one new diindenoanthracene which has yet to be tested in devices, but we are working towards creating a more generalized synthesis method to make it possible to add a variety of substituents to the general diindenoanthracene scaffold.