The field-effect mobility in an organic thin-film transistor is studied
theoretically. From a percolation model of hopping between localized states and
a transistor model an analytic expression for the field-effect mobility is
obtained. The theory is applied to describe the experiments by Brown et al.
[Synth. Met. 88, 37 (1997)] on solution-processed amorphous organic
transistors, made from a polymer (polythienylene vinylene) and from a small
molecule (pentacene). Good agreement is obtained, both with respect to the
gate-voltage and the temperature dependence of the mobility.Comment: 13 pages RevTeX, 2 Postscript figure
A technology has been developed to make all polymer integrated circuits. It involves reproducible fabrication of field-effect transistors in which the semiconducting, conducting and insulating parts are all made of polymers. The fabrication on flexible substrates uses spin-coating of electrically active precursors and patternwise exposure of the deposited films. In the whole process stack integrity is maintained. Vertical interconnects are made mechanically. As a demonstrator functional 15-bit programmable code generators are fabricated. These circuits still operate when the foils are sharply bent. Due to the limited number of process steps the technology is potentially inexpensive.
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