Pentacene

About: Pentacene is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5051 publications have been published within this topic receiving 161481 citations. The topic is also known as: 2,3:6,7-dibenzanthracene & benzo[b]naphthacene.

Effect of light irradiation on the characteristics of organic field-effect transistors

Abstract: The effect of light irradiation on the characteristics of organic field-effect transistors containing sexithiophene (6-T) and pentacene was examined. Organic phototransistors (OPTs) in which 6-T and pentacene were incorporated were fabricated. Their response behaviors were investigated under conditions of irradiation by either modulated or continuous ultraviolet light with various intensities. Both devices showed two distinguishable responses, i.e., fast and slow responses from photoconductive and photovoltaic effects, respectively. The fast response is mainly the result of the generation of mobile carriers by the absorption of a photon energy higher than the band gap energy of the semiconductor and, subsequently, an increase in conductance via a greater flow of photogenerated mobile carriers into the channel layer. On the other hand, the slow response, which was confirmed by a light induced shift in the threshold voltage (Vth) or the switch-on voltage (VO), is the result of a slow release of accumulated ...

High capacitance organic field-effect transistors with modified gate insulator surface

Abstract: In this paper, we report on flexible, high capacitance, pentacene, and regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (rr-P3HT) organic field-effect transistors fabricated on metallized Mylar films. The gate insulator, Al2O3, was prepared by means of anodization. We show that covering the anodized gate insulator with an octadecyltrichlorosilane self-assembled monolayer or apoly(α-methylstyrene) capping layer has the same effect on carrier mobility as for thermally grown silicon oxide. In addition, temperature-dependent measurements of mobility were performed on transistors fabricated with and without modification of the gate dielectric. In the case of both the pentacene and the rr-P3HT transistors, the μ(T) behavior shows that the cause of the mobility enhancement through surface modification is not a reduction in the level of energetic disorder (σ in Bassler’s model), as in the case of the fully amorphous organic semiconductor poly(triarylamine) [Veres et al., Adv. Funct. Mater. 13, 199 (2003)]. It appears that the...

Gate Bias Stress in Pentacene Field-Effect-Transistors: Charge Trapping in the Dielectric or Semiconductor

Abstract: Gate bias stress instability in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) is a major conceptual and device issue. This effect manifests itself by an undesirable shift of the transfer characteristics and is associated with long term charge trapping. We study the role of the dielectric and the semiconductor separately by producing OFETs with the same semiconductor (pentacene) combined with different dielectrics (SiO$_2$ and Cytop). We show, it is possible to fabricate devices which are immune to gate bias stress. For other material combinations, charge trapping occurs in the semiconductor alone, or in the dielectric.

Analysis of charge transport in a polycrystalline pentacene thin film transistor by temperature and gate bias dependent mobility and conductance

Abstract: The gate bias and temperature dependent field-effect mobility and conductance of a polycrystalline pentacene thin film transistor (TFT) were analyzed to study the charge transport in the material. Since both heating and cooling can obviously change the film morphology, a relatively narrow temperature range was adopted to rule out the possible influence of structure variation on the device characterization. Both mobility and conductance values increased with the gate bias and showed a thermally activated Arrhenius-like behavior, while the threshold voltage deceased with temperature. Several models were compared, and it was found that the observations could only be well interpreted by a multiple trapping model, which suggests that the temperature and gate bias dependences should be attributed to the increased free charge carrier density. The density of trap states in the band gap was evaluated by the field-effect mobility as well as the field-effect conductance data. The results disclose a possible field-ef...