Electrostatic Spray Deposition of Highly-Crystalline TIPS Pentacene Thin Films for Fabrication of Organic Field-Effect Transistors

Abstract

This paper demonstrates that electrostatic spray deposition (ESD) method is a promising solution process to fabricate highly-crystalline organic films (6,13-bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene; TIPS pentacene) for the use in bottom-contact organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). We obtained large crystalline domains (i.e., molecularly-oriented domains) by using an o-DCB:acetone mixed solvent (1:1), and observed good transistor behavior in an OFET having the channel length of 20 μm.