Coherent Electron Transport in Air-Stable, Printed Single-Crystal Organic Semiconductor and Application to Megahertz Transistors.

Adv Mater

Material Innovation Research Center and Department of Advanced Materials Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8561, Japan.

Published: December 2020

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  • Organic semiconductors (OSCs) are gaining popularity for applications in electronics like transistors due to their ability to transport carriers efficiently.
  • Researchers have recently developed p-type OSC single crystals that work well with printing technology, enabling high-speed field-effect transistors (FETs), while advancements in n-type OSCs are being explored for complementary circuits.
  • A specific n-type OSC called PhC -BQQDI was studied for its electron transport properties and demonstrated high-speed performance in single crystal FETs, achieving a cutoff frequency of 4.3 MHz.

Article Abstract

Organic semiconductors (OSCs) have attracted growing attention for optoelectronic applications such as field-effect transistors (FETs), and coherent (or band-like) carrier transport properties in OSC single crystals (SCs) have been of interest as they can lead to high carrier mobilities. Recently, such p-type OSC SCs compatible with a printing technology have been used to achieve high-speed FETs; therefore, developments of n-type counterparts may be promising for realizing high-speed complementary organic circuits. Herein, coherent electron transport properties in a printed SC of a state-of-the-art, air-stable n-type OSC, PhC -BQQDI, by means of variable-temperature gated Hall effect measurements and X-ray single-crystal diffraction analyses in conjunction with band structure calculations, are reported. Furthermore, the SC FET is tested for high-speed operations, which obtains a cutoff frequency of 4.3 MHz at an operation voltage of 20 V in air. Thus, PhC -BQQDI is shown as a new candidate for practical applications of SC-based, organic complementary devices.

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