Triisopropylsilyl pentacene organic thin-film transistors by ink-jet printing method

  • Park, Young-Hwan (Information Display Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Kang, Jung-Won (Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Kim, Yong-Hoon (Information Display Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute) ;
  • Han, Jeong-In (Information Display Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute)
  • Published : 2006.08.22

Abstract

By ink-jet printing method, organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) having soluble 6,13-bis (triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene (TIPS pentacene) as an active material were fabricated. The TIPS pentacene solution was made with chlorobenzene and anisole. The solutions were printed on poly (4-vinylphenol) (PVP) dielectric layers and source/drain electrodes by piezo-type heads for bottom contact OTFTs. The dielectric layers had untreated or HMDS-treated conditions. The chlorobenzene device showed the highest field effect mobility of $0.016\;cm^2/Vs$ and the anisole HMDS-treated device shows the highest $I_{on}/I_{off}$ ratio of $10^5$.

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