Effect of Side Chain Structure of Gate Insulator on Characteristics of Organic Thin Film Transistor

We propose a new method to achieve well-defined surface properties of the polymeric gate dielectrics without using SAM technique and inserting another organic/inorganic buffer layer. Pentacene thin film transistors(OTFTs) fabricated with the polyimide gate insulators with different side chain structures were demonstrated. Further, a relationship between the surface properties (surface morphology, surface energy, etc) of the films and the performance of OTFTs have investigated, which will be given in more detail in presentation.