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Contact-induced crystallinity for high-performance soluble acene-based transistors and circuits.

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By connecting device fabrication to molecular design, it is demonstrated that rapid film processing under ambient room conditions and high performance are not mutually exclusive.
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The use of organic materials presents a tremendous opportunity to significantly impact the functionality and pervasiveness of large-area electronics. Commercialization of this technology requires reduction in manufacturing costs by exploiting inexpensive low-temperature deposition and patterning techniques, which typically lead to lower device performance. We report a low-cost approach to control the microstructure of solution-cast acene-based organic thin films through modification of interfacial chemistry. Chemically and selectively tailoring the source/drain contact interface is a novel route to initiating the crystallization of soluble organic semiconductors, leading to the growth on opposing contacts of crystalline films that extend into the transistor channel. This selective crystallization enables us to fabricate high-performance organic thin-film transistors and circuits, and to deterministically study the influence of the microstructure on the device characteristics. By connecting device fabrication to molecular design, we demonstrate that rapid film processing under ambient room conditions and high performance are not mutually exclusive.

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Molecular design and ordering effects in π-functional materials for transistor and solar cell applications.

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Organic Thin Film Transistors for Large Area Electronics

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present new insight into conduction mechanisms and performance characteristics, as well as opportunities for modeling properties of organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) and discuss progress in the growing field of n-type OTFTs.
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Organic Field‐Effect Transistors

Gilles Horowitz
- 01 Mar 1998 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the performance of organic field effect transistors (OFETs) is examined in terms of field effect mobility and on-off current ratio, and the most prominent fabrication techniques are described.
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Liquid-crystalline semiconducting polymers with high charge-carrier mobility.

TL;DR: New semiconducting liquid-crystalline thieno[3,2-b ]thiophene polymers are reported on, the enhancement in charge-carrier mobility achieved through highly organized morphology from processing in the mesophase, and the effects of exposure to both ambient and low-humidity air on the performance of transistor devices.
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Device Physics of Solution‐Processed Organic Field‐Effect Transistors

TL;DR: In this article, the materials, charge-transport, and device physics of solution-processed organic field-effect transistors are reviewed, focusing in particular on the physics of the active semiconductor/dielectric interface.
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Flexible active-matrix displays and shift registers based on solution-processed organic transistors.

TL;DR: Flexible active-matrix monochrome electrophoretic displays based on solution-processed organic transistors on 25-μm-thick polyimide substrates based on 1,888 transistors are demonstrated, which are the largest organic integrated circuits reported to date.
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