Abstract:
An organic thin-film transistor has a p-type semiconducting layer, wherein the semiconducting layer comprises a crystalline conjugated polyarylamine of the chemical structure: wherein R1 through R5 are independently selected from hydrogen, alkyl having from about 1 to about 30 carbon atoms, aryl having from about 6 to about 40 carbon atoms, heteroaryl having from about 3 to about 40 atoms, alkoxy having from about 1 to about 30 carbon atoms, aryloxy having from about 6 to about 40 carbon atoms, and substituted derivatives thereof; wherein A and B are the same or different independently selected from arylenes having from about 6 to about 20 carbon atoms or heteroarylenes having from about 3 to about 20 carbon atoms; and wherein n is the degree of polymerization; and wherein the polyarylamine has a mobility (μ0) of 10−4 cm2/V·sec or greater.
Abstract:
An electronic device including a compound comprising at least one type of an optionally substituted indolocarbazole moiety and at least one divalent linkage.
Abstract:
A process for fabricating a thin film transistor including: (a) depositing a semiconductor layer; and (b) depositing a multilayer gate dielectric prior to or subsequent to the depositing the semiconductor layer, wherein the multilayer dielectric comprises: (i) a first layer comprising a first material selected from the group consisting of an optionally substituted silsesquioxane, an optionally substituted silsesquioxane-metal oxide hybrid composition, an optionally substituted siloxane-metal oxide hybrid composition, and a mixture thereof, and (ii) a second layer in contact with the first layer, wherein the second layer comprises a second material, wherein the first layer is closer to the semiconductor layer than the second layer.
Abstract:
An electronic device composed of: a multilayer dielectric including: (i) a first layer composed of a first material selected from the group consisting of an optionally substituted silsesquioxane, an optionally substituted silsesquioxane-metal oxide hybrid composition, an optionally substituted siloxane-metal oxide hybrid composition, and a mixture thereof, and (ii) a second layer in contact with the first layer, wherein the second layer comprises a second material.
Abstract:
A process composed of subjecting a reaction mixture comprising a reaction medium, a coupling agent, and a precursor to a coupling temperature to preferentially form a desired small molecular thiophene compound in a single-step synthesis, wherein the precursor consists of: (i) an optional divalent linkage, and (ii) a plurality of thiophene units, each thiophene unit being represented by structure (A) wherein each thiophene unit is bonded at either or both of the second ring position and the fifth ring position.
Abstract:
A dielectric material prepared from a siloxy/metal oxide hybrid composition, and electronic devices such as thin film transistors comprising such dielectric material are provided herein. The siloxy/metal oxide hybrid composition comprises a siloxy component such as, for example, a siloxane or silsesquioxane. The siloxy/metal oxide hybrid composition is useful for the preparation of dielectric layers for thin film transistors using solution deposition techniques
Abstract:
An electronic device comprising a semiconductor layer in contact with a number of electrodes, wherein the semiconductor layer includes a small molecular thiophene compound consisting of a plurality of thiophene units, each thiophene unit being represented by structure (A) wherein each thiophene unit is bonded at either or both of the second ring position and the fifth ring position, wherein there is at least one thiophene unit where R1 is present at the third ring position or the fourth ring position, or at both the third ring position and the fourth ring position, wherein for any two adjacent thiophene units there is excluded the simultaneous presence of the same or different R1 at the 3-position of one thiophene unit and at the 3′-position of the other thiophene unit.
Abstract:
Novel compounds of the structural formula (I) are antagonists and/or inverse agonists of the Cannabinoid-1 (CB1) receptor and are useful in the treatment, prevention and suppression of diseases mediated by the CB1 receptor. The compounds of the present invention are useful as centrally acting drugs in the treatment of psychosis, memory deficits, cognitive disorders, migraine, neuropathy, neuro-inflammatory disorders including multiple sclerosis and Guillain-Barre syndrome and the inflammatory sequelae of viral encephalitis, cerebral vascular accidents, and head trauma, anxiety disorders, stress, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, movement disorders, and schizophrenia. The compounds are also useful for the treatment of substance abuse disorders, the treatment of obesity or eating disorders, as well as the treatment of asthma, constipation, chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, and cirrhosis of the liver.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a suture securing tool for securing a suture against body tissue with a suture retainer. The tool includes first, second, and third force application assemblies. The first force application assembly is connectable with at least one end portion of the suture for tensioning the suture with a suture tensioning force which is a function of suture size and strength. The second force application assembly presses the suture retainer against the body tissue and has an opening through which at least one end portion of the suture is extendable. The third force application assembly plastically deforms the suture retainer to thereby secure the suture against body tissue.
Abstract:
An electronic device containing a polythiophene prepared by a metal halide-mediated coupling polymerization in an appropriate solvent, and which polythiophene is comprised of at least one monomer unit selected from the group consisting of 2,5-thienylene (or 2,5-thiophenediyl) (I), 2,5-thienylene (or 2,5-thiophenediyl) (II), and a divalent linkage D wherein, for example, A is alkyl, alkoxy or derivatives thereof; B is a hydrogen atom, a small substituent like alkyl or alkoxy.