Printable Organic and Polymeric Semiconducting Materials and Devices

This is an invited review article for Journal of Material Chemistry. Solution-processable organic and polymeric semiconducting materials are active materials used for electronic devices such as thin-film field-effect transistors (FETs). These materials are more likely to have practical advantages when coupled with low-cost approaches to patterning that are compatible with them. In this article, we discuss material requirements for high-performance solution-based FETs. We also describe structural, morphological, and processing factors that influence device performance. Finally, methods and schemes of printing workable devices are surveyed.