Single-crystal tetrathiafulvalene microwire arrays formed by drop-casting method in the saturated solvent atmosphere

• We developed the drop-casting method via saturated solvent atmosphere, and obtained the single-crystal TTF microwire arrays.
• Based on this method, the success ratio to form TTF microwire arrays is as high as 86%.
• This method can improve the crystalline quality and success ratio of many soluble organic microwire arrays, such as TTF, DB-TTF and TCNQ.
• The TTF microwire array FETs were fabricated based on this method, suggesting the potential of this method in electronic applications.

We developed a drop-casting method to grow the well-aligned single-crystal tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) microwire arrays with success ratio as high as 86%. The key improvement over the earlier study is that the substrate is placed in an apparatus which is filled with the saturated solvent vapor at room temperature. The saturated solvent atmosphere ensures stable environment and adequate time to form the arrays with high success ratio, and to dramatically improve the crystalline quality. Combined with the optimized concentration, the highly ordered single-crystal TTF microwire arrays are obtained. Based on these microwire arrays, the assembly of devices can be easily realized in one step. These results show the potential of this facile method to form the high-quality arrays, and the assemblies of nanoscale circuits for fundamental studies and future applications.

The large-scale, well-aligned and single-crystal tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) microwire arrays have been obtained by the developed drop-casting method in the saturated solvent atmosphere with high success ratio.Figure optionsDownload as PowerPoint slide