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http://dx.doi.org/10.4313/JKEM.2009.22.2.107

Improved Air Stability of OTFT's with a P3HT/POSS Active Layer  

Park, Jeong-Hwan (매그나칩 PSD사업부 파워솔루션 디비젼)
Han, Kyo-Yong (영남대학교 전자정보공학부)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers / v.22, no.2, 2009 , pp. 107-113 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to improve air stability, we proposed a new active layer of an organic TFT by synthesizing P3HT/POSS conjugated polymer. P3HT/POSS OTFTs with the various P3HT/POSS volume ratios were fabricated and characterized. With the P3HT/POSS volume ratio of 1:1, we achieved the field-effect mobilities of ${\sim}1.19{\times}10^{-3}\;cm^2/v{\cdot}sec$ in the saturation region and the current on/off ratio of ${\sim}2.51{\times}10^2$. The resulting current on-off ratio was much higher than that of the P3HT-based OTFTs and resulted from the dramatic decrease of the off-current. Since the off-current can be reduced by preventing oxygen in atmosphere from doping the P3HT/POSS active layers, this new active layer shows its ability to avoid oxygen doping in atmosphere. Therefore, the improvement of the air stability can be achieved by employing the P3HT/POSS active layers.
Keywords
P3HT; Poly(3-hexylthiophene); POSS; Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane; OTFT; Air stability;
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