Single Crystal-Like Performance in Solution-Coated Thin-Film Organic Field-Effect Transistors

In electronics, the fi eld-effect transistor (FET) is a crucial cornerstone and successful integration of this semiconductor device into circuit applications requires stable and ideal electrical characteristics over a wide range of temperatures and environments. Solution processing, using printing o...

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Autores: Pozo, Freddy G. del, Pfattner, Raphael, Georgakopoulos, Stamatis, Galindo, Sergi, Veciana, Jaume, Rovira, Concepció, Mas Torrent, Marta
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/134098
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/134098
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Organic field-effect transistors
Thin-film coating
Charge carrier mobility
Temperature-independent transport
Device stability
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Sumario:In electronics, the fi eld-effect transistor (FET) is a crucial cornerstone and successful integration of this semiconductor device into circuit applications requires stable and ideal electrical characteristics over a wide range of temperatures and environments. Solution processing, using printing or coating techniques, has been explored to manufacture organic fi eld-effect transistors (OFET) on fl exible carriers, enabling radically novel electronics applications. Ideal electrical characteristics, in organic materials, are typically only found in single crystals. Tiresome growth and manipulation of these hamper practical production of fl exible OFETs circuits. To date, neither devices nor any circuits, based on solution-processed OFETs, has exhibited an ideal set of characteristics similar or better than today’s FET technology based on amorphous silicon. Here, bar-assisted meniscus shearing of dibenzo-tetrathiafulvalene to coat-process self-organized crystalline organic semiconducting domains with high reproducibility is reported. Including these coatings as the channel in OFETs, electric fi eld and temperature-independent charge carrier mobility and no bias stress effects are observed. Furthermore, record-high gain in OFET inverters and exceptional operational stability in both air and water are measured.