Ambipolar pentacene field-effect transistor with double-layer organic insulator

Jeong-Hun Kwak; Heume-Il Baek; Changhee Lee

doi:10.1117/12.678889

25 August 2006 Ambipolar pentacene field-effect transistor with double-layer organic insulator

Jeong-Hun Kwak, Heume-Il Baek, Changhee Lee

Proceedings Volume 6336, Organic Field-Effect Transistors V; 63361C (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.678889
Event: SPIE Optics + Photonics, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Ambipolar conduction in organic field-effect transistor is very important feature to achieve organic CMOS circuitry. We fabricated an ambipolar pentacene field-effect transistors consisted of gold source-drain electrodes and double-layered PMMA (Polymethylmethacrylate) / PVA (Polyvinyl Alcohol) organic insulator on the ITO(Indium-tin-oxide)-patterned glass substrate. These top-contact geometry field-effect transistors were fabricated in the vacuum of 10^-6 Torr and minimally exposed to atmosphere before its measurement and characterized in the vacuum condition. Our device showed reasonable p-type characteristics of field-effect hole mobility of 0.2-0.9 cm²/Vs and the current ON/OFF ratio of about 10⁶ compared to prior reports with similar configurations. For the n-type characteristics, field-effect electron mobility of 0.004-0.008 cm²/Vs and the current ON/OFF ratio of about 10³ were measured, which is relatively high performance for the n-type conduction of pentacene field-effect transistors. We attributed these ambipolar properties mainly to the hydroxyl-free PMMA insulator interface with the pentacene active layer. In addition, an increased insulator capacitance due to double-layer insulator structure with high-k PVA layer also helped us to observe relatively good n-type characteristics.

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Jeong-Hun Kwak, Heume-Il Baek, and Changhee Lee "Ambipolar pentacene field-effect transistor with double-layer organic insulator", Proc. SPIE 6336, Organic Field-Effect Transistors V, 63361C (25 August 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.678889

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