Downscaling of Organic Field-Effect Transistors with a Polyelectrolyte Gate Insulator

A polyelectrolyte is used as gate insulator material in organic field-effect transistors with self-aligned inkjet printed sub--micrometer channels. The small separation of the charges in the electric double layer at the electrolyte-semiconductor interface, which builds up in tens of microseconds, provides a very high transverse electric field in the channel that: effectively suppresses short-channel effects at low applied gate voltages.