Gate-bias assisted charge injection in organic field-effect transistors
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The charge injection barriers in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) seem to be far less critical as compared to organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). Counter intuitively, we show that the origin is image-force lowering of the barrier due to the gate bias at the source contact, although the corresponding gate field is perpendicular to the channel current. In coplanar OFETs, injection barriers up to 1 eV can be surmounted by increasing the gate bias, enabling extraction of bulk transport parameters in this regime. For staggered transistors, however, the injection is gate-assisted only until the gate bias is screened by the accumulation channel opposite to the source contact. The gate-assisted injection is supported by two-dimensional numerical charge transport simulations that reproduce the gate-bias dependence of the contact resistance and the typical S-shaped output curves as observed for OFETs with high injection barriers.
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TNO Identifier
476294
ISSN
1566-1199
Source
Organic Electronics, 13, pp. 1526-1531.
Publisher
Elsevier
Collation
6 p.
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Pages
1526-1531
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