• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1027-1029
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• 2004

In this paper, we have fabricated pentacene thin film transistors (TFTs) using polyvinylphenol (PVP) copolymer and cross-linked PVP as gate insulator on glass and plastic (PET) substrate. Depending on the density of PVP and cross-link material the performance has been changed. We obtained the best device performance with the mobility of 0.32cm2/V${\cdot}$sec and the on/off current ratio of 1.19${\times}$106 for the case of 10wt% PVP copolymer mixed with 5wt% poly (melamine-co-formaldehyde). Additionally using pentacene TFTs with the above PVP gate insulator, we fabricated the integrated circuits including inverter which produced the gain of 9.7.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.664-666
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• 2008

Low-temperature curable organic insulator was prepared through blending of polyimide type base resin and cross-linking agent. The newly developed resin can be formed into films using a wet process and cured at $130^{\circ}C$. Using the low temperature cured film as the gate dielectric layer, the field effect mobility of $0.15\;cm^2/V{\cdot}s$ was obtained from a pentacene field effect transistor in the saturation regime and no hysteresis behavior was observed in transfer curves.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.575-578
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• 2002

In this work, the electrical characteristics of organic thin film transistors with the surface-treated organic gate insulator have been studied. For the surface treatment, the photoalignment technique was used. The field effect mobilities of the devices with PVP gate insulator was improved about ten times as high as those of TFTs without the insulator surface treatment.

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.1-6
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• 2003

In this paper, we demonstrate that the organic electrophosphorescent device is driven by the organic thin film transistor with spin-coated photoacryl gate insulator. It was found that electrical output characteristics in our organic thin film transistors using the staggered-inverted top-contact structure showed the non-saturated slope in the saturation region and the sub-threshold nonlinearity in the triode region, where we obtained the maximum power luminance that was about 90 $cd/m^2$. Field effect mobility, threshold voltage, and on-off current ratio in 0.45 ${\mu}m$ thick gate dielectric layer were 0.17 $cm^2/Vs$, -7 V, and $10^6$ , respectively. In order to form polyimide as a gate insulator, vapor deposition polymerization process was also introduced instead of spin-coating process, where polyimide film was co-deposited by high-vacuum thermal evaporation from 4,4'-oxydiphthalic anhydride (ODPA) and 4,4'-oxydianiline (ODA) and cured at 150${\sqsubset}$for 1hr. It was also found that field effect mobility, threshold voltage, on-off current ratio, and sub-threshold slope with 0.45 ${\mu}m$ thick gate dielectric films were 0.134 $cm^2/Vs$, -7 V, and $10^6$ A/A, and 1 V/decade, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.72-73
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• 2009

In this study, we fabricated of pentacene organic thin film trasistor(OTFT), which used aluminum oxide for the gate insulator on glass substrate. Aluminum oxide for OTFTs was deposited on the gate layer by E-beam evaporation. aluminum oxide fabricated various deposition rate. In this case of the deposition rate of $0.1\;{\AA}$, the fabricated aluminum oxide gate insulator OTFT showed a threshold voltage of -1.36V, an on/off current ratio of $1.9{\times}l0^3$ and field effect mobility $0.023\;cm^2/V_s$.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.118-122
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• 2009

Organic thin film transistors with a pentacene active layer and various polymer gate insulators were fabricated and their performances were investigated. Characteristics of pentacene thin film transistors on different polymer substrates were investigated using an atomic force microscope (AFM) and x-ray diffraction (XRD). The pentacene thin films were deposited by thermal evaporation on the gate insulators of various polymers. Hexamethyldisilazane (HMDS), polyvinyl acetate (PVA) and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) were fabricated as the gate insulator where a pentacene layer was deposited at 40, 55, 70, 85, 100 oC. Pentacene thin films on PMMA showed the largest grain size and least trap concentration. In addition, pentacene TFTs of top-contact geometry are compared with PMMA and $SiO_2$ as gate insulators, respectively. We also fabricated pentacene TFT with Poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-Polysturene Sulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) electrode by inkjet printing method. The physical and electrical characteristics of each gate insulator were tested and analyzed by AFM and I-V measurement. It was found that the performance of TFT was mainly determined by morphology of pentacene rather than the physical or chemical structure of the polymer gate insulator

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.1107-1110
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• 2006

We investigate the effect of processing temperature of gate insulator and optical anisotropy on organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). The insulator film which was processed lower temperature than solvent boiling temperature can lead more aligned pentacne molecules compare to higher processed insulator film. It finally gives rise to the big increase of carrier mobility in OTFTs, although there are little difference at the seriously affecting properties to device performance, for example roughness of gate insulator film.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.1174-1177
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• 2006

A bottom contact organic thin film transistor (OTFT) is fabricated with an organic double-layered gate insulator (GI) and pentacene. The PMMA and MNB layers are treated on gate insulator and source/drain (S/D, Au) before depositing pentacene to investigate device properties and pentacene growth. The sequence of surface treatment affects a device performance seriously. The ultra-thin PMMA (below 50A) was deposited on organic gate insulator and S/D metal by spin coating method, which showed no deterioration of on-state current (Ion) although bottom contact structure was exploited. We proposed that the reason of no contact resistance (Rc) increase may be due to a wettability difference in between PMMA / Au and PMMA / organic GI. As a result, the device treated by $PMMA\;{\rightarrow}\;MNB$ showed much better Ion behavior than those fabricated by $MNB\;{\rightarrow}\;PMMA$. We will report the important physical and electrical performance difference associated with surface treatment sequence.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.99-102
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• 2004

In this work the electrical characteristics of organic thin film transistors with the surface-treated organic gate insulator have been studied. For the surface treatment of gate dielectric, Ar plasma was used. Pentacene and PVP were used as active and dielectric layers respectively. Pentacene was thermally evaporated in vacuum at a pressure of about $10^{-6}$ Torr and at a deposition rate of 0.5 $\AA$/sec. PVP was spin coated and cured at $100^{\circ}C$. before pentacene deposition. organic thin film transistors with surface-treated gate insulators have provided improved operation characteristics.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.08b
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• pp.1315-1318
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• 2007

Hafnium dioxide nano film as gate insulator for organic thin film transistors is prepared by atomic layer deposition. Mostly crystalline of $HfO_2$ films can be obtained with oxygen plasma and with water at relatively low temperature of $150^{\circ}C$. $HfO_2$ was deposited as a uniform rate $1.2A^{\circ}/cycle$. The morphology and performances of OTFT will be discussed.