Charge carrier inversion in a doped thin film organic semiconductor island

Autor: Schumacher, Zeno, Rejali, Rasa, Cowie, Megan, Spielhofer, Andreas, Miyahara, Yoichi, Grutter, Peter
Rok vydání: 2020
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c02600
Popis: Inducing an inversion layer in organic semiconductors is a highly nontrivial, but critical, achievement for producing organic field-effect transistor (OFET) devices, which rely on the generation of inversion, accumulation, and depletion regimes for successful operation. In recent years, a major milestone was reached: an OFET was made to successfully operate in the inversion-mode for the first time. Here, we develop a pulsed bias technique to characterize the dopant type of any organic material system, without prior knowledge or characterization of the material in question. We use this technique on a pentacene/PTCDI heterostructure and thus deduce that pentacene is n-doped by impurities. Additionally, through tip-induced band-bending, we generate inversion, depletion, and accumulation regimes over a 20~nm radius, three monolayer thick n-doped pentacene island. Our findings demonstrate that nanometer-scale lateral extent and thickness are sufficient for an OFET device to operate in the inversion regime.
Comment: Updated manuscript with additional data and findings
Databáze: arXiv