• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.12 no.4 s.37
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• pp.359-363
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• 2005

The organic insulation devices with MIM (metal-insulator-metal) structures as PVP gate insulation films were prepared for the application of organic thin film transistors (OTFT). The co-polymer organic insulation films were synthesized by using PVP(poly-4-vinylphenol) as solute and PGMEA (propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate) as solvent. The cross-linked PVP insulation films were also prepared by addition of poly (melamine-co-formaldehyde) as thermal hardener. The leakage current of the cross-linked PVP films was found to be about 300 pA with low current noise. and showed better property in electrical properties as compared with the co-polymer PVP insulation films. In addition, cross-linked PVP insulation films showed better surface morphology (roughness), showing about 0.11${\~}$0.18 nF in capacitance for all PVP film samples.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.1301-1305
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• 2005

The performance of OTFT with $PVP-TiO_2$ composite, as a gate insulator, is reported, including the effect of surfactant for synthesizing the composite material. According to our investigation results, it was one of critical issues to prevent the aggregation of $PVP-TiO_2$ particles during the synthesis process. From this point of view, $PVP-TiO_2$ particles were treated using Tween80, as a surfactant, and we could reduce the aggregated $PVP-TiO_2$ clusters. As a result, the OTFT with the composite insulator showed the threshold voltage of about -8.3 V and the subthreshold slope of about 1.5 V/decade, which are the optimized properties compared to those of OTFTs with bare PVP, in this study. It is thought that these characteristic improvements are originated from the increase in the dielectric constant of the PVP-based insulator by compositing with high-k particles.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1027-1029
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• 2004

In this paper, we have fabricated pentacene thin film transistors (TFTs) using polyvinylphenol (PVP) copolymer and cross-linked PVP as gate insulator on glass and plastic (PET) substrate. Depending on the density of PVP and cross-link material the performance has been changed. We obtained the best device performance with the mobility of 0.32cm2/V${\cdot}$sec and the on/off current ratio of 1.19${\times}$106 for the case of 10wt% PVP copolymer mixed with 5wt% poly (melamine-co-formaldehyde). Additionally using pentacene TFTs with the above PVP gate insulator, we fabricated the integrated circuits including inverter which produced the gain of 9.7.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.184-187
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• 2002

In this work, the electrical characteristics of organic thin film transistors with the stacked organic gate insulators have been studied. PVP(Polyvinylphenol) and polystyrene were used as gate insulating materials. Both the high dielectric constant of PVP and better insulating capability of polystyrene were compensatorily adopted in two different stacking orders of PVP-polystyrene and polystyrene-PVP. The output characteristics of the device with the stacked gate insulator showed substantial improvement compared with those of the devices with either PVP or polystyrene gate insulator: Furthermore, these stacked organic gate insulators can differently affect the TFT characteristics with the stacking orders. The electrical properties of TFTs with organic gate insulators stacked in different orders are discussed.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.06b
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• pp.375-378
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• 2004

In this paper, we fabricated pantacene TFTs using PVP copolymer and cross-linked PVP as gate insulator on glass and plastic (PET) substrate. Depending on the density of PVP and poly (melamine-co-formaldehyde) the performance has been changed. We obtained the best performance with the mobility of 0.12cm2/V sec and the on/off current ratio of $1.19{\times}10^6$ for the case of $10wt\%$ PVP copolymer mixed with $5wt\%$ poly(melamine-co-formaldehyde). Additionally using OTFTs with the above PVP gate insulator, we fabricated the integrated circuit including inverter which produced the gain of 5.56 on the glass substrate and gain of 9.7 on the plastic (PET) substrate. And the threshold voltage was respectively +8V and +14v$ldots$

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.245-245
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• 2008

In this work, we describe the characterization of PVP films synthesized by spin-coater method and fabricate OTFTs of a bottom gate structure using pentacene as the active layer and polyvinylphenol (PVP) as the gate dielectric on Au gate electrode. We investigated the surface and electrical properties of PVP layer using an AFM method and MIM structure, and estimated the device properties of OTFTs including $I_D-V_D$, $I_D-V_G$, threshold voltage $V_T$, on/off ratio, and field effect mobility.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.27-31
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• 2007

The cpapcitors with MIM(metal-insulator-metal) structures using PVP gate insulation films were prepared for the application of flexible organic thin film transistors (OTFT). The co-polymer organic insulation films were synthesized by using PVP(poly-4-vinylphenol) as a solute and PGMEA(propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate) as a solvent. The cross-linked PVP insulation films were also prepared by addition of poly(melamine-co-formaldehyde) as thermal hardener. The leakage current of the cross- linked PVP films was found to be about 1.3 nA on Al/PES(polyethersulfone) substrate, whereas, on ITO/ glass substrate was about 27.5 nA indicating improvement of the leakage current at Al/PES substrates. Also, the capacitances of all prepared samples on ITO/glass and Al/PES substrates w ere ranged from 1.0 to $1.2nF/cm^2$, showing very similar result with the calculated capacitance values.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.302-307
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• 2006

The formation and processing of organic insulators on the device performance have been studied in the fabrication of organic thin film transistors (OTFTs). The series of polyvinyls, poly-4-vinyl phenol(PVP) and polyvinyltoluene (PVT), were used as solutes and propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate(PGMEA) as a solvent in the formation of organic insulators. The cross-linking of organic insulators was also attempted by adding the thermosetting material, poly (melamine-co-formaldehyde) as a hardener in the compound. The electrical characteristics measured in the metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structures showed that insulating properties of PVP layers were generally superior to those of PVT layers. Among the layers of PVP series: PVP(10 wt%) copolymer, 5 wt% cross-linked PVP(10 wt%), PVP(20 wt%) copolymer, 5 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%) and 10 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%), the 10 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%) layer showed the lowest leakage current characteristics. Finally, inverted staggered OTFTs using the PVP(20 wt%) copolymer, 5 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%) and 10 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%) as gate insulators were fabricated on the polyether sulphone (PES) substrates. In our experiments, we could obtain the maximum field effect mobility of 0.31 $cm^2/Vs$ in the device from 5 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%) and the highest on/off current ratio of $1.92{\times}10^5$ in the device from 10 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%).

• Journal of Information Display
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.1-4
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• 2008

In this study, we investigate the capacitance-voltage (C-V) characteristics of metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) capacitors consisting of pentacene, as an organic semiconductor, and polymeric insulators such as poly(4-vinylphenol) (PVP) orpolystyrene (PS) prepared by spin-coating process, to analyze the interfacial characteristics between pentacene and polymeric insulators. Compared with the device with PS, the MIS capacitor with PVP exhibited a pronounced shift in the flat-band voltage according to the bias sweep direction. This hysteric feature in the C-V characteristics is thought to be attributed to the trapped charges at the interface between pentacene and PVP owing to the hydrophilicity of PVP. From the experimental results, we can conclude that surface polarity of polymeric insulator has a critical effect on the interfacial properties, thereby affecting the bias stability of organic thin-film transistors.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.5 no.1 s.14
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• pp.39-43
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• 2006

The polyvinyl series organic films as gate insulators of thin film transistor(TFT) have been processed and characterized on the polyether sulphone (PES) substrates . The poly-4-vinyl phenol(PVP) and polyvinyl toluene (PVT) were used as solutes and propylene glycol monomethyl ether acetate(PGMEA) as a solvent in the formation of organic insulators. The cross-linking of organic insulators was also attempted by adding the thermosetting material, poly (melamine-co-formaldehyde) as a hardener in the compound. The electrical characteristics measured in the metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structures showed that insulating properties of PVP layers were generally superior to those of PVT layers. Among the layers of PVP series; copolymer PVP(10 wt%), 5wt% cross-linked PVP(10 wt%), copolymer PVP(20 wt%), 5 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%) and 10 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%), the 10 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%) layer showed the lowest leakage current of 1.2 pA at ${\pm}10V$. The ms value of surface roughness and the capcitance per unit area are 2.41 and $1.76nF/cm^2$ in the case of 10 wt% cross-linked PVP(20 wt%) layer, respectively.