Interface Engineering with Polystyrene for High-Performance, Low-Voltage Driven Organic Thin Film Transistor

Md Mehedi Hasan, Md Mobaidul Islam, Xiuling Li, Mingqian He, Robert Manley, Jaemyung Chang, Nikolay Zhelev, Karan Mehrotra, Jin Jang*

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Abstract

We report a solution-processed, high-performance organic thin-film transistor (OTFT), using polystyrene (PS) as interlayer with the semiconducting material P2TDPP2TFT4 as an active layer. We achieved a significant improvement employing the PS as an interlayer between the P2TDPP2TFT4 and {{{\text {AlO}}}}_{X} gate insulator. The filed-effect mobility ( \mu _{{{\text {FE}}}} ) and ON/OFF current ratio {(}{I}_{{ \mathrm{\scriptscriptstyle ON}}}/{I}_{{ \mathrm{\scriptscriptstyle OFF}}}{)} reached to 0.82\,\,{{{\text {cm}}}}^{{{{2}}}}{\cdot } {{\text {V}}}^{{{-{1}}}}{\cdot } {{\text {s}}}^{{{-{1}}}} and 105, respectively, which is higher than the devices fabricated with commonly used self-assembled monolayer (SAM) octadecyltrimethoxysilane (OTS) modified substrate under similar experimental conditions. Further analysis of the modified gate insulator utilizing atomic force microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and contact angle measurement revealed that smoother surface and lower surface energy were achieved by employing PS interlayer, which leads to more compatible surface energy with the semiconductor and interfacial trap passivation. Passivation of interfacial traps and lower surface energy using PS interlayer leads to the highly stable device performance, suggesting its application as a new interlayer with {{{\text {AlO}}}}_{X} gate insulator to improve device performance.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number9034506
Pages (from-to)1751-1756
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Volume67
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2020

Funding

Manuscript received January 20, 2020; revised February 11, 2020; accepted February 16, 2020. Date of publication March 12, 2020; date of current version March 24, 2020. This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) under Grant 10052044 and in part by the Korea Display Research Corporation (KDRC) Support Program for the development of future devices technology for display industry. The review of this article was arranged by Editor H. Klauk. (Corresponding author: Jin Jang.) Md. Mehedi Hasan, Md. Mobaidul Islam, Xiuling Li, and Jin Jang are with the Advanced Display Research Center, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, South Korea, and also with the Department of Information Display, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, South Korea (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]).

Keywords

  • Interlayer
  • Octadecyltrimethoxysilane (OTS)
  • Organic semiconductor
  • Polystyrene (PS)
  • Thin-film transistor (TFT)

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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