Printable Cross-Linked Polymer Blend Dielectrics. Design Strategies, Synthesis, Microstructures, and Electrical Properties, with Organic Field-Effect Transistors as Testbeds

Citations Over TimeTop 10% of 2008 papers

Abstract

We report here the synthesis and dielectric properties of optimized, cross-linked polymer blend (CPB) dielectrics for application in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). Novel silane cross-linking reagents enable the synthesis of CPB films having excellent quality and tunable thickness (from 10 to approximately 500 nm), fabricated both by spin-coating and gravure-printing. Silane reagents of the formula X 3Si-R-SiX 3 (R = -C 6H 12- and X = Cl, OAc, NMe 2, OMe, or R = -C 2H 4-O-C 2H 4- and X = OAc) exhibit tunable reactivity with hydroxyl-containing substrates. Dielectric films fabricated by blending X 3Si-R-SiX 3 with poly(4-vinyl)phenol (PVP) require very low-curing temperatures ( approximately 110 degrees C) and adhere tenaciously to a variety of FET gate contact materials such as n (+)-Si, ITO, and Al. The CPB dielectrics exhibit excellent insulating properties (leakage current densities of 10 (-7) approximately 10 (-8) A cm (-2) at 2.0 MV/cm) and tunable capacitance values (from 5 to approximately 350 nF cm (-2)). CPB film quality is correlated with the PVP-cross-linking reagent reactivity. OFETs are fabricated with both p- and n-type organic semiconductors using the CPB dielectrics function at low operating voltages. The morphology and microstructure of representative semiconductor films grown on the CPB dielectrics is also investigated and is correlated with OFET device performance.

Related Papers

• → Enhanced Dielectric Properties of Ferroelectric Polymer Composites Induced by Metal-Semiconductor Zn-ZnO Core–Shell Structure(2012)167 cited
• → Single-transistor method for the extraction of the contact and channel resistances in organic field-effect transistors(2014)42 cited
• → An analytical model for bio-electronic organic field-effect transistor sensors(2013)17 cited
• → Water-Gated Phospholipid-Monolayer Organic Field Effect Transistor Through Modified Mueller–Montal Method(2013)5 cited
• Wet Organic Field Effect Transistor as DNA sensor(2008)