Chin. Phys. Lett.  2010, Vol. 27 Issue (4): 048102    DOI: 10.1088/0256-307X/27/4/048102
CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
Electrical Studies on Pentacene Thin Film Transistors with Different Channel Widths

Jaya Lohani1, Manoj Gaur2, Upendra Kumar1, V. R. Balakrishnan1, Harsh1, S. V. Eswaran2

1Solid State Physics Laboratory, Lucknow Road, Delhi-110054,India2St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India
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Jaya Lohani, Manoj Gaur, Upendra Kumar et al  2010 Chin. Phys. Lett. 27 048102
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In order to conduct electrical studies on organic thin film transistors, top-contact devices are fabricated by growing polycrystalline films of freshly synthesized pentacene over Si/SiO2 substrates with two different channel widths under identical conditions. Reasonable field effect mobilities in order of 10-2-10-3 cm2V-1s-1 are obtained in these devices. An elaborative electrical characterization of all the devices is undertaken to study the variance in output saturation current, field effect mobility, and leakage current with aging under ambient conditions. As compared to the devices with longer channel width, the devices with shorter channel width exhibit better electrical performance initially. However, the former devices sustain the moderate performance much longer than the latter ones.

Keywords: 81.05.Fb      72.80.Le      82.35.Cd     
Received: 24 December 2009      Published: 27 March 2010
PACS:  81.05.Fb (Organic semiconductors)  
  72.80.Le (Polymers; organic compounds (including organic semiconductors))  
  82.35.Cd (Conducting polymers)  
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