Degradation of organic field-effect transistors made of pentacene
- 1 July 2004
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Materials Research
- Vol. 19 (7) , 1999-2002
- https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2004.0267
Abstract
This article reports degradation experiments on organic thin film transistors using the small organic molecule pentacene as the semiconducting material. Starting with degradation inert p-type silicon wafers as the substrate and SiO2 as the gate dielectric, we show the influence of temperature and exposure to ambient air on the charge carrier field-effect mobility, on-off-ratio, and threshold-voltage. The devices were found to have unambiguously degraded over 3 orders of magnitude in maximum on-current and charge carrier field-effect mobility, but they still operated after a period of 9 months in ambient air conditions. A thermal treatment was carried out in vacuum conditions and revealed a degradation of the charge carrier field-effect mobility, maximum on-current, and threshold voltage.Keywords
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