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▼ [13p-A409-1] Effect of dielectric interface on charge transport anisotropy in polymer thin-film transistors fabricated by friction transfer method
Keywords:Conjugated polymer, Friction transfer, Orientation
Conjugated polymers (CPs) offer adequate freedom to improve the charge transport in their thin films by tuning their chemical structure or processing techniques aiming towards enhancing their crystallinity. Exploiting quasi 1-dimensional nature of CPs is one of the best possible approaches to improve the carrier transport by uniaxially orienting them along the channel of an organic field-effect transistor (OFET). Various solution-based approaches in order to orient the CPs leading to high-performance OFETs has been demonstrated, however, the limitations like need of good solubility of the CPs, surface wettability, pre-aggregation in solution, etc., are the bottleneck to generalize them. Moreover, inevitability of halogenated solvents for film fabrication may also lead to serious health and environmental hazards during large scale production. Friction transfer is a solvent-free processing technique to fabricate large-area oriented polymer thin films and can effectively be utilized to overcome aforementioned challenges. In this work, role of dielectric surface to control the anisotropic charge transport in the OFETs has been extensively investigated and considering the optical and electrical characteristics, a possible transport mechanism has been proposed.