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High-Performance Low Voltage Organic Thin-Film Transistors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2011

Stijn De Vusser ,
Soeren Steudel ,
Kris Myny ,
Jan Genoe  and
Paul Heremans
Stijn De Vusser
Affiliation:
also with KULeuven, ESAT-INSYS, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Soeren Steudel
Affiliation:
also with KULeuven, ESAT-INSYS, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Kris Myny
Affiliation:
MEC vzw, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Jan Genoe
Affiliation:
MEC vzw, Kapeldreef 75, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
Paul Heremans
Affiliation:
also with KULeuven, ESAT-INSYS, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium
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Abstract

In this work, we report on high-performance low voltage pentacene Organic Thin-Film Transistors (OTFT's) and circuits. Inverters and ring oscillators have been designed and fabricated. At 15 V supply voltage, we have observed invertors showing a voltage gain of 9 and an output swing of more than 13 V. As for the ring oscillators, oscillations started at supply voltages as low as 8.5 V. At a supply voltage of only 15 V, a stage delay time of 3.3 νs is calculated from experimental results.

We believe that these results show for the first time a high speed ring oscillator at relatively low supply voltages. The required supply voltages can be obtained by rectification using an organic (pentacene) diode. These results may have an important impact on the realization of RF-ID tags: by integrating our circuits with an organic diode, the fabrication of organic RF-ID tags comes closer.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 870: Symposium H – Giant-Area Electronics on Nonconventional Substrates , 2005 , H1.4
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2005

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