Journal
ORGANIC ELECTRONICS
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 1170-1176Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.02.010
Keywords
Gelatin; Field-effect mobility; OTFT; Pentacene
Funding
- National Science Council, Republic of China [NSC 100-2221-E-007-067-MY3]
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Gelatin is a natural protein in the field of food, pharmaceutical and tissue engineering, which works very well as the gate dielectric for pentacene organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). An aqueous solution process has been applied to form a gelatin thin film on poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) or glass by spin-coating and subsequent casting. The device performance of pentacene OTFTs depend on the bloom number (molecular weight) of gelatin. The pentacene OTFT with 300 bloom gelatin as the gate dielectric in air ambient exhibits the best performance with an average field-effect mobility (mu(FE)) value of ca. 16 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) in the saturation regime and a low threshold voltage of -1 V. The high performance of the pentacene OTFT in air ambient is attributed to the water resided in gelatin. The crystal quality of pentacene is not the key factor for the high performance. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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