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http://dx.doi.org/10.4313/JKEM.2008.21.9.835

Dispersion Characteristics of Ag Pastes and Properties of Screen-printed Source-drain Electrodes for OTFTs  

Lee, Mi-Young (부경대학교 공과대학 화상정보공학부)
Nam, Su-Yong (부경대학교 공과대학 화상정보공학부)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers / v.21, no.9, 2008 , pp. 835-843 More about this Journal
Abstract
We have fabricated the source-drain electrodes for OTFTs by screen printing method and manufactured Ag pastes as conductive paste. To obtain excellent conductivity and screen-printability of Ag pastes, the dispersion characteristics of Ag pastes prepared from two types of acryl resins with different molecular structures and Ag powder treated with caprylic acid, triethanol amine and dodecane thiol as surfactant respectively were investigated. The Ag pastes containing Ag powder treated with dodecane thiol having thiol as anchor group or AA4123 with carboxyl group(COOH) of hydrophilic group as binder resin exhibited excellent dispersity. But, Ag pastes(CA-41, TA-41, DT-41) prepared from AA4123 fabricated the insulating layer since the strong interaction between surface of Ag powder and carboxyl group(COOH) of AA4123 interfered with the formation of conduction path among Ag powders. The viscosity behavior of Ag pastes exhibited shear-thinning flow in the high shear rate range and the pastes with bad dispersion characteristic demonstrated higher shear-thinning index than those with good dispersity due to the weak flocculated network structure. The output curve of OTFT device with a channel length of 107 ${\mu}m$ using screen-printed S-D electrodes from DT-30 showed good saturation behavior and no significant contact resistance. And this device exhibited a saturation mobility of $4.0{\times}10^{-3}$ $cm^2/Vs$, on/off current ratio of about $10^5$ and a threshold voltage of about 0.7 V.
Keywords
Ag paste; Dispersion characteristic; Screen printing; OTFTs; Source-drain electrodes;
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