High mobility organic field-effect transistor based on water-soluble deoxyribonucleic acid via spray coating

Wei Shi; Shijiao Han; Wei Huang; Junsheng Yu

doi:10.1063/1.4907325

High mobility organic field-effect transistor based on water-soluble deoxyribonucleic acid via spray coating

Wei Shi, Shijiao Han, Wei Huang, Junsheng Yu^*

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High mobility organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) by inserting water-soluble deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) buffer layer between electrodes and pentacene film through spray coating process were fabricated. Compared with the OFETs incorporated with DNA in the conventional organic solvents of ethanol and methanol: water mixture, the water-soluble DNA based OFET exhibited an over four folds enhancement of field-effect mobility from 0.035 to 0.153 cm²/Vs. By characterizing the surface morphology and the crystalline structure of pentacene active layer through atomic force microscope and X-ray diffraction, it was found that the adoption of water solvent in DNA solution, which played a key role in enhancing the field-effect mobility, was ascribed to both the elimination of the irreversible organic solvent-induced bulk-like phase transition of pentacene film and the diminution of a majority of charge trapping at interfaces in OFETs.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	043303
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	106
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4907325
State	Published - Jan 26 2015

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