Bottom-contact n-channel C60 thin-film transistors (TFTs) with drain/source electrodes modified by benzenethiol derivatives have been fabricated to investigate the influence of the modification on the transistor characteristics. Modification using methylbenzenethiol, aminobenzenethiol, and (dimethylamino)benzenethiol having electron-donating groups causes threshold voltages to shift to low voltages. In addition, the modification provides no significant decrease in saturation mobilities. A C60 TFT with (dimethylamino)benzenethiol-modified electrodes has a low threshold voltage of 5.1 V as compared to that of 16.8 V for a TFT with nonmodified electrodes. The threshold-voltage shift is probably because the modification reduces electron-injection barrier height and improves electron injection into organic semiconductors.
We demonstrated solution-processed C60 thin-film transistors with high electron mobility. C60 solutions in various organic solvents were dried in a vacuum chamber to obtain uniform thin films. While C60 solution dried under atmospheric pressure produced a large number of crystals, vacuum-dried C60 solution provided flat and uniform thin films of sufficiently high quality to fabricate thin-film transistors. In spite of amorphous-like thin-film formation, C60 transistors showed strong solvent dependence. High performance C60 thin-film transistors with field-effect mobility of 0.86 cm2 V-1 s-1, threshold voltage of 1.5 V, subthreshold slope of 0.67 V/decade and a current on/off ratio of 3.9 ×106 were obtained from 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene C60 solution.
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