Monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors

Monolayer coverage and channel length set the mobility in self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors

Mathijssen, S.G.J.
Smits, E.C.P.
van Hal, P.A.
Wondergem, H.J.
Ponomarenko, S.A.
Moser, A.
Resel, R.
Bobbert, P.A.
Kemerink, M.
Janssen, R.A.J.
de Leeuw, D.M.
TNO Industrie en Techniek

2009

The mobility of self-assembled monolayer field-effect transistors (SAMFETs) traditionally decreases dramatically with increasing channel length. Recently, however, SAMFETs using liquid-crystalline molecules have been shown to have bulk-like mobilities that are virtually independent of channel length. Here, we reconcile these scaling relations by showing that the mobility in liquid crystalline SAMFETs depends exponentially on the channel length only when the monolayer is incomplete. We explain this dependence both numerically and analytically, and show that charge transport is not affected by carrier injection, grain boundaries or conducting island size. At partial coverage, that is when the monolayer is incomplete, liquid-crystalline SAMFETs thus form a unique model system to study size-dependent conductance originating from charge percolation in two dimensions. © 2009 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.

Nanotechnology
article
atomic force microscopy
controlled study
field effect transistor
liquid crystal
priority journal
self assembled monolayer field effect transistor
semiconductor
structure analysis
topography
transmission electron microscopy
X ray diffraction

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5a1621fc-e135-487a-97f1-7dcc95e0e068

https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.201

279982

1748-3387

Nature Nanotechnology, 4 (10), 674-680

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