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title

Suppressing bias stress degradation in high performance solution processed organic transistors operating in air.

author

Iqbal, H.

author

Ai, Q.

author

Thorley, K.

author

Chen, H.

author

McCulloch, I.

author

Risko, C.

author

Anthony, J.

author

Jurchescu, O.

abstract

Solution processed organic field effect transistors can become ubiquitous in flexible optoelectronics. While progress in material and device design has been astonishing, low environmental and operational stabilities remain longstanding problems obstructing their immediate deployment in real world applications. Here, we introduce a strategy to identify the most probable and severe degradation pathways in organic transistors and then implement a method to eliminate the main sources of instabilities. Real time monitoring of the energetic distribution and transformation of electronic trap states during device operation, in conjunction with simulations, revealed the nature of traps responsible for performance degradation. With this information, we designed the most efficient encapsulation strategy for each device type, which resulted in fabrication of high performance, environmentally and operationally stable small molecule and polymeric transistors with consistent mobility and unparalleled threshold voltage shifts as low as 0.1 V under the application of high bias stress in air.

subject

transistors

date

2021-08-23T15:26:17Z (accessioned)

2021-08-23T15:26:17Z (available)

2021-04-21 (issued)

identifier

Iqbal, H.F., Ai, Q., Thorley, K.J. et al. Suppressing bias stress degradation in high performance solution processed organic transistors operating in air. Nat Commun 12, 2352 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22683-2 (citation)

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/98979 (uri)

identifier

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22683-2 (doi)

language

en_US (iso)

publisher

SpringerNature

type

Article