@article{8563373a210e4c90bad52c7959678f3b,
title = "Synthesis, X-ray, spectroelectrochemical, and theoretical studies of a tricyanovinyl-capped quaterthiophene: A correlation of semiconductor performance with physical properties",
abstract = "A new tricyanovinyl-substituted quaterthiophene compound has been synthesized and characterized by X-ray crystallography, cyclic voltammetry, spectroelectrochemistry, and theoretical analysis. The tricyanovinyl group provides a dramatic change in the physical properties of the quaterthiophene. The molecule has been tested as the semiconducting layer in an n-type thin-film transistor. The device properties correlate well with the solid-state packing, spectroelectrochemical results, and theoretical modeling.",
author = "Burand, \{Michael W.\} and McGee, \{Kari A.\} and Xiuyu Cai and \{da Silva Filho\}, \{Demetrio A.\} and Br{\'e}das, \{Jean Luc\} and \{Daniel Frisbie\}, C. and Mann, \{Kent R.\}",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported primarily by the M rsec Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number DMR-0212302. The work at Georgia Tech was also partly supported via NSF grants CHE-0342321 and CHE-0443564. M.W.B thanks Prof. D.A. Freedman for his assistance with spectroelectrochemistry and Prof. T. M. Pappenfus for helpful discussions. The authors acknowledge the X-ray Crystallographic Laboratory in the University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry. ",
year = "2006",
month = jul,
day = "10",
doi = "10.1016/j.cplett.2006.04.087",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "425",
pages = "251--256",
journal = "Chemical Physics Letters",
issn = "0009-2614",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "4-6",
}