Fabrication and characterization of pentacene-based transistors with a room-temperature mobility of 1.25 cm2/Vs
✍ Scribed by Hoon-Seok Seo; Young-Se Jang; Ying Zhang; P. Syed Abthagir; Jong-Ho Choi
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 218 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1566-1199
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✦ Synopsis
Pentacene-based transistors produced by a novel neutral cluster beam deposition method were characterized, and the effects of the surface pretreatments were examined. Atomic force microscopy and X-ray diffraction showed that the cluster beams were quite efficient in growing high-quality, crystalline thin films on SiO 2 substrates at room-temperature without any thermal post-treatment, and that an amphiphilic surfactant, octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS), enhances the packing density and crystallinity significantly. The observed field-effect mobilities (l eff ) were among the best reported thus far: 0.47 and 1.25 cm 2 /Vs for the OTS-untreated and -pretreated devices, respectively. The device performance was found to be consistent with the estimated trap density and activation energy, which were derived from the transport characteristics for the temperature dependence of l eff in the range of 10À300 K.