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Contact-induced crystallinity for high-performance soluble acene-based transistors and circuits

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David J. Gundlach, James E. Royer, SK Park, Sankar Subramanian, Oana Jurchescu, Behrang H. Hamadani, Andrew Moad, Regis J. Kline, LC Teague, Oleg A. Kirillov, Curt A. Richter, Lee J. Richter, Sean R. Parkin, Thomas Jackson, JE Anthony

Abstract

The use of organic materials presents a tremendous opportunity to significantly impact the functionality and pervasiveness of large-area electronics. Commercialization of this technology requires reduction in manufacturing costs by exploiting inexpensive low-temperature deposition and patterning techniques, which typically lead to lower device performance. We report a low-cost approach to control the microstructure of solution-cast acene-based organic thin films through modification of interfacial chemistry. Chemically and selectively tailoring the source/drain contact interface is a novel route to initiating the crystallization of soluble organic semiconductors, leading to the growth on opposing contacts of crystalline films that extend into the transistor channel. This selective crystallization enables us to fabricate high-performance organic thin-film transistors and circuits, and to deterministically study the influence of the microstructure on the device characteristics. By connecting device fabrication to molecular design, we demonstrate that rapid film processing under ambient room conditions and high performance are not mutually exclusive.
Citation
Nature Materials

Citation

Gundlach, D. , Royer, J. , Park, S. , Subramanian, S. , Jurchescu, O. , Hamadani, B. , Moad, A. , Kline, R. , Teague, L. , Kirillov, O. , Richter, C. , Richter, L. , Parkin, S. , Jackson, T. and Anthony, J. (2008), Contact-induced crystallinity for high-performance soluble acene-based transistors and circuits, Nature Materials, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=854062 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created March 8, 2008, Updated February 19, 2017