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Fabrication of Large-area Free-standing Ultrathin Polymer Films
Published on: June 3, 2015
Tailoring Structure and Field-Effect Characteristics of Ultrathin Conjugated Polymer Films via Phase Separation
1Department of Chemical Engineering , Pohang University of Science and Technology , Pohang 790-784 , South Korea.
Abstract:
A phase-separation method has been developed to control the semiconductor thickness and molecular arrangement via the semiconducting/insulating polymer blend system. The thickness of the poly(3-hexylthiophene) film has been regulated from 10.5 ± 1.4 nm down to 1.9 ± 0.8 nm with a favorable self-assembly degree and the mobility ranging from 0.21 to 0.03 cm2 V-1 s-1. The ultrathin films show high bias stability and weak decay after 24 days with a bottom-gate configuration. Benefited from a good molecular order, the films have low activation energy and a 2D charge transport profile in semiconductor layers. Moreover, this blending process can be used as a general strategy of thickness control in flexible low-voltage devices and donor-acceptor-conjugated polymers.
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