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Stacked pentacene layer organic thin-film transistors with improved characteristics

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In this article, photolithographically defined organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) with improved field-effect mobility and sub-threshold slope were fabricated using two layers of pentacene deposited at different substrate temperatures.
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Using two layers of pentacene deposited at different substrate temperatures as the active material, we have fabricated photolithographically defined organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) with improved field-effect mobility and subthreshold slope. These devices use photolithographically defined gold source and drain electrodes and octadecyltrichlorosilane-treated silicon dioxide gate dielectric. The devices have field-effect mobility as large as 1.5 cm/sup 2//V-s, on/off current ratio larger than 10/sup 8/, near zero threshold voltage, and subthreshold slope less than 1.6 V per decade. To our knowledge, this is the largest field-effect mobility and smallest subthreshold slope yet reported for any organic transistor, and the first time both of these important characteristics have been obtained for a single device.

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TL;DR: Pentacene-based organic thin-film transistors (TFT's) with field effect mobility as large as 0.7 cm/sup 2/V/spl middot/s and on/off current ratio larger than 10/sup 8/ have been fabricated as mentioned in this paper.
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Molecular beam deposited thin films of pentacene for organic field effect transistor applications

TL;DR: In this article, a maximum field effect mobility of 0.038 cm−2'V−1'1's−1 is reported for devices incorporating pentacene films deposited at room temperature.
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Pentacene-based organic thin-film transistors

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the large sub-threshold slope typically observed is not an intrinsic property of the organic semiconducting material and that devices with sub-reshold slope similar to amorphous silicon devices are possible.
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