Thin-film field-effect transistor is a fundamental component behind various mordern electronics. The development of stretchable electronics poses fundamental challenges in developing new electronic materials for stretchable thin-film transistors that are mechanically compliant and solution processable. Here we report the fabrication of transparent thin-film transistors that behave like an elast...

The development of new organic semiconductors with improved electrical performance and enhanced environmental stability is the focus of considerable research activity. This paper presents the design, synthesis, optical and electrochemical characterization, crystal packing, modeling and thin film morphology, and organic thin film field effect transistor (OTFT) device data analysis for a novel 2,...

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In this work, we propose an unified compact model, which includes the effects of both source and drain contact regions, to describe electrical characteristics staggered thin film transistors (TFTs). The model is based on a generic drift analytical expression that describes intrinsic channel transistor. Despite distributed two-dimensional nature contacts in configurations, two-terminal component...

The advancement of organic electronics for applications in solar-energy conversion, printed circuitry, displays, and solidstate lighting depends upon the optimization of a variety of organic-semiconductor interfaces. Organic-semiconductor/ insulator (O/I) interfaces, in particular, are critical to the operation of organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) currently being developed for printed flexi...

In this review, we introduce a variety of surface sensitive techniques for the study of organic thin films, and applications to organic devices. These studies include surface plasmon emission light, organic thin film transistors, combination of quartz crystal microbalance and optical waveguide spectroscopy, evaluation of alignment of liquid crystal molecules at surfaces, and biosensor applicati...

In recent years, organic thin-fi lm transistors (OTFTs) have attracted a great deal of attention due to their potential applications in low cost sensors, [ 1 ] memory cards, [ 2 ] and integrated circuits. [ 3 ] Great efforts are under way to design OTFTs with high performance, high stability, high reproducibility, and low cost. [ 4 ] Two of the most crucial device parameters are the charge carr...

For organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) made of solution processed stacks semiconductor and dielectric materials, it is a grand challenge to eliminate the leakage current paths. With top-gate bottom-contact structure, this work introduces strong dipole interfacial layer self-assembled monolayer (SAM) molecules at metal-semiconductor contacts suppress minority carrier injection for low stable ...