Gravure printed ultra-thin dielectric for low voltage flexible organic field-effect transistors
Author(s)
Vaklev, Nikolay
Steinke, Joachim
Campbell, Alasdair
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Organic electronics requires dielectrics which can be processed over large areas at low temperature in ambient using simple solution based techniques. Here a crosslinkable acrylate‐based organic dielectric is reported, which is gravure printable on plastic substrates, patternable by conventional photolithography, and can form electrically functional films at thicknesses below 100 nm. Capacitors are successfully fabricated with film thicknesses of 50 and 70 nm, and organic field effect transistors with thicknesses of 70 nm, transistors with gold contacts patterned by lift‐off on top of the dielectric followed by spin‐cast 6,13‐bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)‐pentacene showing near ideal behavior at operating voltages as low as −1 V. Importantly saturation, a requirement for digital logic, in transistors is achieved with gate lengths of 2.7 µm, at the limit of conventional photolithography. This demonstrates that such materials have potential in flexible organic electronic devices requiring digital signal processing and low voltages.
Date Issued
2019-06-07
Date Acceptance
2019-03-15
Citation
Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2019, 6 (11)
ISSN
2196-7350
Publisher
Wiley
Journal / Book Title
Advanced Materials Interfaces
Volume
6
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
© 2019 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/admi.201900173
Identifier
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admi.201900173
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
1900173
Date Publish Online
2019-04-26