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The bias stress effect in pentacene organic thin-film transistors has been investigated. The transistors utilize a thin gate dielectric based on an organic self-assembled monolayer and thus can be operated at low voltages. The bias stress-induced threshold voltage shift has been analyzed for different drain-source voltages. By fitting the time-dependent threshold voltage shift to a stretched exponential function, both the maximum (equilibrium) threshold voltage shift and the time constant of the threshold voltage shift were determined for each drain-source voltage. It was found that both the equilibrium threshold voltage shift and the time constant decrease significantly with increasing drain-source voltage. This suggests that when a drain-source voltage is applied to the transistor during gate bias stress, the tilting of the HOMO and LUMO bands along the channel creates a pathway for the fast release of trapped carriers.
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Zschieschang, U., Weitz, R.T., Kern, K. et al. Bias stress effect in low-voltage organic thin-film transistors. Appl. Phys. A 95, 139–145 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-008-5019-8
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