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Reduced Contact Resistances in Organic Transistors with Secondary Gates on Source and Drain Electrodes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Kengo Nakayama
Affiliation:
nakayama@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan
Takafumi Uemura
Affiliation:
uemura@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp, Osaka University, Department of Chemistry,@Graduate School of Science, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
M. Uno
Affiliation:
uno@tri.pref.osaka.jp, TRI-Osaka, Izumi, Japan
Jun Takeya
Affiliation:
takeya@chem.sci.osaka-u.ac.jp, Osaka University, Dept. of Chemistry, Grad. School of Science, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, 560-0043, Japan, +81-6-6850-5398, +81-6-6850-6797
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Abstract

Secondary-gate electrodes are introduced in organic thin-film transistors to reduce carrier-injection barriers into air-stable organic semiconductors. The additional gate electrodes buried in the gate insulators under the source and drain electrodes form “carrier-rich regions” in the vicinity of source and drain electrodes with the application of sufficiently high local electric fields. Fabricating the structure with dinaphtho[2,3-b:2′,3′-f]thieno[3,2-b]thiophene, known for its excellent air-stability, it turned out that the contact resistance is drastically reduced especially when operated at low gate voltage in the main channel. The result demonstrates carrier injection with a minimized potential barrier realizing that from the same semiconductor material in the absence of peculiar interfacial trap levels at metal-to-semiconductor junctions.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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