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With their lower weight, production costs, and temperature processing, as well as advanced mechanical flexibility, increased abundancy and sustainability, organic semiconductors present huge opportunities for the electronics industry compared to their traditional counterparts. Easily fabricated via deposition on flexible substrates, allowing for the development of bendable circuitry, organic semiconductor materials offer particular advantages for the development of biomedical devices, foldable solar cells, and nanoscale applications.
With organic semiconductor materials garnering increasing interest, thiophene-based organic molecules have emerged as a popular research topic. Modifying the structure of thiophene polymers alters the electrical properties, and precise tuning can be achieved with molecular doping, however, identifying suitable molecules and doping agents from a vast range of compounds and permutations is a challenge for researchers.
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Refine your search to key molecular structures, doping agents, and emerging applications for thiophene semiconductors with advanced filtering tools in CAS SciFinder.
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Effortlessly return a wide range of compounds of interest using a structural search. Thiophene compounds consist of various moieties containing the thiophene ring or multiple thiophene rings as a basic structural unit. With advanced capabilities in CAS SciFinder, you can search for thiophene with any substituents at 2nd and 5th position on the ring to broadly cover these compounds in one search.
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Focus on the data you need by applying a combination of dynamic CAS SciFinder filters, including Substance Class, Isotopes, and Reference Role. By selecting from our expert-curated indexing terms like ‘polymer’ and ‘not containing isotopes’, you can distill your results to thiophene compounds with the properties you need, to get directly to specific and actionable insights.
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Quickly retrieve references related to semiconductors with the Concepts Filter. Search the filter for the word stem ‘semiconduct*’ to return all semiconductor concept sub-categories which can be used to filter your results.
Save time on your literature review by refining your results even further with the Search Within feature. Search for additional terms such as ‘dope or doped or doping’ within your results set to focus strictly on doped thiophene-derived organic semiconductor materials.
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