Employing Pneumatic Nozzle Printing for Controlling the Crystal Growth of Small Molecule Organic Semiconductor for Field-Effect Transistors

Shyuan Yang, Steve Park, Johannes Bintinger, Yvan Bonnassieux, John Anthony, Ioannis Kymissis

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Abstract

A pneumatic nozzle-based printing technique that can control the crystallization of small molecule organic semiconductor thin films during deposition is reported. By tuning the printing speed and the substrate temperature, large-sized organic crystals are grown along the printing direction, resulting in field-effect mobility enhancement by 50 times compared to spin-coated films for 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)-pentacene. Furthermore, silver electrodes using the technique to fabricate printed flexible inverters with a gain as high as 16 are printed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1700534
JournalAdvanced Electronic Materials
Volume4
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2018

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim

Funding

S.Y. and S.P. contributed equally to this work. This work was partially supported by the FlexTech Alliance, the National Science Foundation under AwardNo.1264927, and Columbia University’s Research Initiatives for Science and Engineering program. Y.B. further acknowledges support from the Alliance Program and J.B. is grateful to the Marietta Blau Grant of the OeAD.

FundersFunder number
Columbia University’s
FlexTech Alliance
National Science Foundation (NSF)645760, 1264927
OeAD-GmbH
National Science Foundation (NSF)

    Keywords

    • crystal control
    • organic field-effect transistors (OFETs)
    • printing
    • thin films
    • transistors

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

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