Investigation of Solvent Effect on the Electrical Properties of TIPS Pentacene Organic Thin-film Transistors

  • Kim, Kyung-Seok (Information Display Research Center, Korea Electronics Technolygy Institute, Dept. Electronics Engineering, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Chung, Kwan-Soo (Dept. Electronics Engineering, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Kim, Yong-Hoon (Information Display Research Center, Korea Electronics Technolygy Institute) ;
  • Han, Jeong-In (Information Display Research Center, Korea Electronics Technolygy Institute)
  • Published : 2006.08.22

Abstract

In this paper, we investigated the effect of solvent on electrical properties of triisopropylsilyl (TIPS) pentacene organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The TIPS pentacene was spin coated by using chlorobenzene, p-xylene, chloroform and toluene as solvent. Fabricated OTFT with chlorobenzene showed field-effect mobility of $0.01\;cm^2/V{\cdot}s$, on/off ratio $4.3{\times}10^3$ and threshold voltage of 5.5 V. In contrast, with chloroform the mobility was $5.8{\times}10^{-7}\;cm^2/Vs$, on/off ratio $1.1{\times}10^2$ and threshold voltage of 1.7 V.

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