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Doped bottom-contact organic field-effect transistors.

Shiyi Liu¹, Paul Billig¹, Akram Al-Shadeedi¹

¹Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, United States of America.

|March 24, 2018

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Doping organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) significantly reduces contact resistance and precisely controls threshold voltage. This enhancement boosts charge mobility and overall device performance for micro-scale electronics.

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Organic electronics
Semiconductor device physics

Background:

Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are crucial for flexible electronics.
Bottom-contact OFETs often suffer from high contact resistance, limiting performance.
Controlling threshold voltage is essential for OFET applications.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the impact of a doped layer on bottom-gate, bottom-contact OFET performance.
To analyze how varying doped layer thickness affects contact resistance and threshold voltage.
To determine the influence of doping on charge mobility in OFETs.

Main Methods:

Fabrication of bottom-gate, bottom-contact OFETs with a doped layer at the dielectric/organic semiconductor interface.
Systematic variation of the doped layer thickness.
Electrical characterization to measure threshold voltage, contact resistance, and charge mobility.

Main Results:

The doped layer significantly reduced contact resistances from 138.8 MΩ to 0.3 MΩ.
Threshold voltage (V_T) shifted linearly from -3.1 V to -0.22 V with increasing doped layer thickness.
Charge mobility increased with the thickness of the doped layer.

Conclusions:

Doping effectively minimizes injection barriers in micro-scale bottom-contact OFETs.
The doped layer offers precise control over threshold voltage and enhances charge transport.
This doping strategy presents a promising route for improving OFET performance.