A Comparative Investigation of a Pentacene Layer on Gold and PMMA in Bottom-Contact Pentacene Thin Film Transistors

Abstract:

This study demonstrates an attempt to fabricate the 25 µm channel-length bottom-contact pentacene TFTs using thermal evaporation through shadow mask technique and to investigate crystal structure, morphology and electronic structure of the pentacene layer deposited at the same time on gold (Au) source-drain electrodes and Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) gate-dielectric of the TFTs. The pentacene layers with thicknesses of 50 nm were deposited at the evaporation rates of 0.1, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 nm/min at substrate temperatures of 60 °C. These conditions were employed with and without preheating at 80 °C before deposition. Preheating at 80 °C was found to improve quality of the pentacene film on the PMMA gate-dielectric. Using the deposition rate of 1 nm/min and the substrate temperature of 60 °C, best performance of TFTs were obtained. At this deposition condition, pentacene film work function was found to be higher on the Au source-drain electrodes than on the PMMA gate-dielectric.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 802)
• Pages: 27-31
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.802.27
• Online since: September 2013
• Authors: Tossapol Tippo, Chanchana Thanachayanont, Hideki Nakajima, Prayoon Songsiriritthigul, Micheal Hietschold, Apinunt Thanachayanont
• Keywords: Organic Electronic, Semiconductor

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