Exploring, designing, and synthesizing novel organic field-effect transistor (OFET) materials have kept an important and hot issue in organic electronics. In the current work, the charge transport properties for 2,5-di(cyanovinyl)thiophene/furan crystal associating two pentafluorophenyl units linked via the azomethine bond, CTE and CFE have been theoretically investigated by means of density functional theory (DFT) calculations coupled with the incoherent charge-hopping mechanism and the kinetic Monte Carlo simulation. Results show that these two compounds possess remarkably low-lying HOMO (-7.0 eV) and LUMO (-4.0 eV) levels, as well as large electron affinities (〉 3.0 eV), which indicate their high stability exposed to air as promising OFET materials. However, the ph value at room temperature (T = 300 K) is predicted to be 2.058x10^7 cm26Vl·s-1, and the is as low as 9.834^10-8 cm2-V-l.s-1 for CFT crystal. Meanwhile, these two values are 7.561 x 10-8 and 8.437 x 10-8 cm2.V-I.s-1 for the CFE crystal, respectively. Furthermore, the simulation of angle-dependent mobility in the a-b, a-c, and b-c crystal planes shows that the charge transport in CTE and CFE crystals is remarkably anisotropic, which maybe is helpful for the fabrication of high-performance OFET devices.
Apparent polarization energy of the localized charge in organic solids consists of electronic polarization energy, permanent electrostatic interactions, and inter/intra molecular relaxation energies. The effective electronic polarization energies for an electron/hole carrier were successfully estimated by AMOEBA polarizable force field in naphthalene molecular crystals. Both electronic polarization energy and permanent electrostatic interaction were in agreement with the preview experimental values. In addition, the influence of the multipoles from different distributed mutipole analysis (DMA) fitting options on the electro- static interactions are discussed in this paper. We found that the multipoles obtained from Gauss-Hermite quadrature without diffuse function or grid-based quadrature with 0.325 A H atomic radius will give reasonable electronic polarization energies and permanent interactions for electron and hole carriers.