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Large-scale fabrication of field-effect transistors based on solution-grown organic single crystals

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A simple solution processing method was developed to grow large-scale well-aligned single crystals including 6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl)pentacene (TIPS-pentacene), anthracene, tetracene, perylene, C60 and tetracyanoquinodimethane. As pinned by a solid needle, a droplet of semiconductor solution dried into single-crystal arrays on a 1 cm × 2 cm substrate. TIPS-pentacene was used to demonstrate the fabrication of hundreds of field-effect transistors (FETs) with the hole mobility as high as 6.46 cm2 V−1 s−1. As such, this work provides a high-throughput, yet efficient approach for statistical examination on the FET performance of organic single crystals.

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有机半导体在场效应晶体管、太阳电池、发光二极管、存储器等众多领域具有广泛的应用前景。与有机半导体薄膜相比,其单晶中缺陷密度较小,因而有机单晶通常具有较高的载流子迁移率,使其成为探索有机材料本征性质和构筑高性能光电器件的最佳选择。目前有机单晶器件较多用于基础研究,而其向应用的过渡首先需要解决单晶大面积生长的难题,为单晶器件的大规模制备打下基础。本文采用一种改进的“固定液滴法”,使有机半导体液滴在金属针的固定下,随溶液蒸发,在表面张力的驱动下,由边缘向中心收缩,同时生长出取向一致的大面积有机单晶,并大规模制备了其场效应晶体管阵列,其迁移率居世界前列。这种方法可适用于多种有机半导体材料,从而为大规模制备有机单晶场效应晶体管阵列提供了一种简便高效的方法。

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2014CB643503), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51222302, 51373150, 51461165301), Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation (LZ13E030002) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. Huolin L. Xin is supported by the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, United States Department of Energy (DE-SC0012704).

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    Shuang Liu, Jia-Ke Wu, Cong-Cheng Fan, Guo-Biao Xue, Hong-Zheng Chen & Han-Ying Li

  2. Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, NY, 11973, USA

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Liu, S., Wu, JK., Fan, CC. et al. Large-scale fabrication of field-effect transistors based on solution-grown organic single crystals. Sci. Bull. 60, 1122–1127 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-015-0817-9

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