Vibration-induced mobility enhancement for a polymer transistor

Yuuki Kondo; Tomonori Hiraki; Yuusuke Suenaga; Tomonori Hanasaki; Ichiro Fujieda

doi:10.1117/12.906567

20 February 2012 Vibration-induced mobility enhancement for a polymer transistor

Yuuki Kondo, Tomonori Hiraki, Yuusuke Suenaga, Tomonori Hanasaki, Ichiro Fujieda

Proceedings Volume 8258, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XIV; 82581A (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.906567
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Charge transport in an organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) is controlled by many factors such as molecular packing in the semiconductor material and the contact property at the source/drain electrode. One approach utilizes an alignment layer to influence the molecular packing. Charge transport becomes anisotropic. However, additional processes are required to form such a structured layer. Solution processes offer more pathways in influencing the molecular packing. These include the use of solvent mixtures for adjusting the evaporation-induced flows, the temperature gradient in molten materials, drop-casting on tilted substrates, and other flow-induced processes. Common to these approaches is the fact that some forms of forces introduce directionality in semiconductor materials. Here, we propose to agitate organic molecules in a solution by applying ultrasound vibrations during the solvent evaporation. The vibration would translate and rotate the molecules and this might introduce ordering in the organic layer when the solvent evaporation is completed. In experiment, we fabricated bottom-contact polymer transistors by dispensing a poly(3- hexylthiophene)/1,2,4-trichlorobenzene solution on a substrate and subsequently drying it in a container immersed in an ultrasound bath. The average field effect mobility of the transistors prepared from a 0.1wt% solution with 30-min ultrasound vibration was 2.5 times higher than that of the control devices prepared without the vibration. We attribute this result to enhanced ordering of the P3HT molecules in the vibrated solution. Atomic-force microscope observation revealed longer polymer chains for the samples prepared with the vibration. We attribute this mobility enhancement to changes in molecular packing during the solvent evaporation.

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Yuuki Kondo, Tomonori Hiraki, Yuusuke Suenaga, Tomonori Hanasaki, and Ichiro Fujieda "Vibration-induced mobility enhancement for a polymer transistor", Proc. SPIE 8258, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XIV, 82581A (20 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.906567

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