- Title
- Novel low voltage and solution processable organic thin film transistors based on water dispersed polymer semiconductor nanoparticulates
- Creator
- Darwis, Darmawati; Elkington, Daniel; Ulum, Syahrul; Bryant, Glenn; Belcher, Warwick; Dastoor, Paul; Zhou, Xiaojing
- Relation
- ARC
- Relation
- Journal of Colloid and Interface Science Vol. 401, p. 65-69
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2013.03.052
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Two novel organic thin film transistor structures that combine a hygroscopic insulator with the use of water-dispersed polymer nanoparticles as the active layer are presented. In the first device structure, the semiconducting layer was fabricated from a nanoparticulate suspension of poly-(3-hexylthiophene) prepared through a mini-emulsion process using sodium dodecyl sulfate as the surfactant whereas a surfactant-free precipitation method has been used for the second device structure. In both cases, fully solution processable transistors have been fabricated in a top gate configuration with hygroscopic poly(4-vinylphenol) as the dielectric layer. Both device structures operate at low voltages (0 to −4 V) but exhibit contrasting output characteristics. A systematic study is presented on the effect of surfactant on the synthesis of semiconducting nanoparticles, the formation of thin nanoparticulate films and, consequently, on device performance.
- Subject
- polymer nanoparticulates; OTFT; P3HT; surfactant; SDS
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1299259
- Identifier
- uon:19827
- Identifier
- ISSN:0021-9797
- Language
- eng
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