Pentacene Organic Thin-Film Transistors on Flexible Paper and Glass Substrates

Abstract

Pentacenebased organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) were fabricated on several types of flexible substrate: commercial photo paper, ultrasmooth specialty paper and ultrathin (100 M) flexible glass. The transistors were fabricated entirely through drystep processing. The transconductance and field effect mobility of OTFTs on photo paper reached values of ~0:52 mS m(exp -1) and ~0:1 sq cm V(exp -1)1 s(exp -1), respectively. Preliminary results on the lifetime of OTFTs on photo paper yielded stable transconductance and mobility values over a period of more than 250 h. The comparable characteristics of OTFTs fabricated on widely available, low cost paper and high quality expensive liquid crystal display glass indicate the potential importance of cellulose based electronic devices.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 12, 2014
Accession Number
ADA597712

Entities

People

  • Adam T. Zocco
  • Andrew Steckl
  • Han You
  • Joshua A Hagen

Organizations

  • University of Cincinnati

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Dielectric Films
  • Dielectrics
  • Electrical Properties
  • Electronics
  • Equations
  • Field Effect Transistors
  • Films
  • Liquid Crystal Displays
  • Materials
  • Mobility
  • Nanotechnology
  • Semiconductors
  • Substrates
  • Thin Film Transistors
  • Thin Films
  • Transconductance
  • Transistors

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

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Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
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