Gi-Seong Ryu

Precisely Controlled Ultrathin Conjugated Polymer Films for Large Area Transparent Transistors and Highly Sensitive Chemical Sensors

A uniform ultrathin polymer film is deposited over a large area with molecularlevel precision by the simple wire-wound bar-coating method. The bar-coated ultrathin films not only exhibit high transparency of up to 90% in the visible wavelength range but also high charge carrier mobility with a high degree of percolation through the uniformly covered polymer nanofibrils. They are capable of realizing highly sensitive multigas sensors and represent the first successful report of ethylene detection using a sensor based on organic field-effect transistors.

Highly Sensitive Flexible NH3 Sensors Based on Printed Organic Transistors with Fluorinated Conjugated Polymers

Understanding the sensing mechanism in organic chemical sensors is essential for improving the sensing performance such as detection limit, sensitivity, and other response/recovery time, selectivity, and reversibility for real applications. Here, we report a highly sensitive printed ammonia (NH3) gas sensor based on organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) with fluorinated difluorobenzothiadiazole-dithienosilole polymer (PDFDT). These sensors detected NH3 down to 1 ppm with high sensitivity (up to 56%) using bar-coated ultrathin (<4 nm) PDFDT layers without using any receptor additives. The sensing mechanism was confirmed by cyclic voltammetry, hydrogen/fluorine nuclear magnetic resonance, and UV/visible absorption spectroscopy. PDFDT-NH3 interactions comprise hydrogen bonds and electrostatic interactions between the PDFDT polymer backbone and NH3 gas molecules, thus lowering the highest occupied molecular orbital levels, leading to hole trapping in the OTFT sensors. Additionally, density functional theory calculations show that gaseous NH3 molecules are captured via cooperation of fluorine atoms and dithienosilole units in PDFDT. We verified that incorporation of functional groups that interact with a specific gas molecule in a conjugated polymer is a promising strategy for producing high-performance printed OTFT gas sensors.

On the Origin of Improved Charge Transport in Double-Gate In–Ga–Zn–O Thin-Film Transistors: A Low-Frequency Noise Perspective

Low-frequency noise (LFN) in double-gate (DG) In-Ga-Zn-O (IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) is studied to investigate the origin of performance improvement. We found that thinning down the IGZO film enhances such improvements. With 7-nm IGZO, the mobility is raised by a factor of 3.77, and the subthreshold slope is reduced to 0.17 V/decade from single-gate to DG mode. Device simulations show that bulk transport inside IGZO film emerges as the two gates field effects get coupled. The LFN results reveal a transport transition from surface to bulk and disclose the superior bulk transport that experiences slight phonon scattering with a small Hooge parameter αH = 4.44 × 10-3 whereas the surface transport undergoes serious charge trapping with surface trap densities about 2 × 1011 eV-1cm-2.

Improvement charge injection in P-type polymer field-effect transistors with low-cost molybdenum electrodes through dodecanoic acid self assembled monolayer

ABSTRACT Most of the merit of organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) is that they can be manufactured using cost effective processes. However, expensive gold (Au) electrodes have usually been used as a source/drain (S/D), due to their benign energy level matching, high air stability, and easy patternability. In this article, we report a simple method for improving the charge injection from a low cost molybdenum (Mo) electrode to organic semiconductors in OTFTs by incorporating a dodecanoic acid (DA)–based self-assembled monolayer (SAM). The OTFT performance is remarkably improved when compared to the devices with a pristine Au electrode. The hole carrier mobilities (hole μFET) were ∼0.13 (rr-P3HT), ∼0.55 (PC12TV12T) and ∼0.72 (P2100) cm2/V·sec.

Chemical Sensors: Precisely Controlled Ultrathin Conjugated Polymer Films for Large Area Transparent Transistors and Highly Sensitive Chemical Sensors (Adv. Mater. 14/2016)

A precise control over the film thickness is a vital requirement for achievement of high performance in thin-film electronic devices. On page 2752, Y.-Y. Noh and co-workers develop an effective way to deposit a large-area and uniform ultrathin polymer film with a molecular-level precision via a simple wire-wound bar-coating method for high-performance organic transistors and gas sensors.