Role of intermolecular charge delocalization and its dimensionality in efficient band-like electron transport in crystalline 2,5-difluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F2-TCNQ)статья
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Аннотация:Theoretical understanding of charge transport in organic semiconductors is exclusively important for organic electronics, but still remains a subject of debates. Recently discovered record-high band-like electron mobility in single crystals of 2,5-difluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F2-TCNQ) is challenging from the theoretical viewpoint. First, very small size of F2-TCNQ molecule implies high reorganization energy that seems incompatible with efficient charge transport. Second, it is not clear why the crystals of a similar compound, 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), shows inefficient hopping electron transport mechanism. To address these issues, we apply DFT and QM/MM calculation to the Fn-TCNQ (n=0,2,4) crystal series. We show that multidimensional intermolecular charge delocalization is of key importance for efficient charge transport in materials consisting of the small-sized molecules, and commonly used guidelines for the search of high-mobility organic semiconductors are to be corrected.