Thickness-dependent Morphology and Crystal Structures in Relation to the Electric Properties in Pentacene Thin-film Transistors
Jongwon Park · Yeonsub Lee · Ogsen Galstyan · Nayun Yoo
· Hanju Lee · Sunghoon Jeon · Yongjae Kim · Kiejin Lee ∗
Department of Physics and Basic Science Institute for Cell Damage Control, Sogang University, Seoul 121-742, Korea
Deokjoon Cha
Department of Physics, Kunsan National University, Kunsan 573-701, Korea (Received 25 September 2014 : revised 7 October 2014 : accepted 7 October 2014)
We fabricated pentacene thin-film transistors (TFTs) with various thicknesses by using a ther- mal evaporation method and analyzed the dependence of the surface morphology, crystallinity and electric properties of the pentacene TFTs on the layer thickness. X-ray diffration measurements indicated that the orthorhombic phase, thin-film phase and triclinic bulk phase appeared, in turn, with increasing pentacene thin-film thickness, which was caused surface polymorph transformations.
We also calculated the threshold voltage and the saturation mobility of the pentacene TFTs and found that they exhibited extreme values at certain thicknesses. While the threshold voltage de- creased below the minimum value, the mobility increased below the maximum value. These results indicated that grain boundaries appear in relatively-thin pentacene layers. The optimum thickness of the pentacene TFTs was found to be 50 nm, and it showed a mobility of 0.16 cm
2/V·s.
PACS numbers: 73.20.At
Keywords: Pentacene, Organic thin-film transistors, Thermal evaporation method, Morphology
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