All-printed flexible organic transistors enabled by surface tension-guided blade coating

Adrien Pierre, Mahsa Sadeghi, Marcia M. Payne, Antonio Facchetti, John E. Anthony, Ana Claudia Arias

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Abstract

A combination of surface energy-guided blade coating and inkjet printing is used to fabricate an all-printed high performance, high yield, and low variability organic thin film transistor (OTFT) array on a plastic substrate. Functional inks and printing processes were optimized to yield self-assembled homogenous thin films in every layer of the OTFT stack. Specifically, we investigated the effect of capillary number, semiconductor ink composition (small molecule-polymer ratio), and additive high boiling point solvent concentrations on film fidelity, pattern design, device performance and yields.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5722-5727
Number of pages6
JournalAdvanced Materials
Volume26
Issue number32
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 27 2014

Funding

FundersFunder number
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)EEC-1160494, CMMI-1255494, ECCS-1202189
National Stroke Foundation
National Science Foundation (NSF)1202189, 1255494

    Keywords

    • Printed organic electronics
    • flexible electronics
    • organic semiconductor blends
    • organic thin film transistors
    • solution processed thin films

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • General Materials Science
    • Mechanics of Materials
    • Mechanical Engineering

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