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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2016 Jun 08;8(22):14071-6. doi: 10.1021/acsami.6b02698. Epub 2016 May 26.

Efficiency of the Switching Process in Organic Electrochemical Transistors.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Philipp C Hütter, Alexander Fian, Karl Gatterer, Barbara Stadlober

Affiliations

  1. MATERIALS - Institute for Surface Technologies and Photonics, JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Franz-Pichler-Straße 30, 8160 Weiz, Austria.
  2. Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Graz University of Technology , Stremayrgasse 9, 8010 Graz, Austria.

PMID: 27191825 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b02698

Abstract

UNLABELLED: Entirely screen printed organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) based on poly(3,4-ethylenedioxithiophene) poly(styrenesulfonate) (

PEDOT: PSS) and a polymer electrolyte are investigated in view of a correlation between the electrical charge consumed during switching and the volume of

PEDOT: PSS in the transistor channel. An understanding of the relation between charge consumption and the amount of electrochemically active PEDOT is essential for the design of high performance transistors and for providing a deeper insight into the fundamentals of the electrochemical switching process in OECTs. It turned out that a precise control of the width of the

PEDOT: PSS source-drain line is imperative for maximizing both the on-current and the on/off current ratio of lateral OECTs.

Keywords: PEDOT:PSS; organic electrochemical transistors; screen printing; transistor geometry; transistor switching process

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