A new process for polymeric gate insulator in field-effect transistors was proposed. Fourier transform infrared absorption spectra were measured in order to identify ODPA-ODA polyimide. Its breakdown field and electrical conductivity were measured. All-organic thin-film transistors with a stacked-inverted top-contact structure were fabricated to demonstrate that thermally evaporated polyimide films could be used as a gate insulator. As a result, the transistor performances with evaporated polyimide was similar with spin-coated polyimide. It seems that the mass-productive in-situ solution-free processes for all-organic thin-film transistors are possible by using the proposed method without vacuum breaking.

Organic semiconductors based on vacuum-deposited films of fused-ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon have great potential to be utilized as an active layer for electronic and optoelectronic devices. In this study, pentacene thin films and electrode materials were deposited by Organic Molecular Beam Deposition (OMBD) and vacuum evaporation respectively. For the gate dielectric layer, photoacryl (OPTMER PC403 from JSR Co.) was spin-coated and cured at 220℃. Electrical characteristics of the device were investigated, where the channel length and width was 50 μm and 5 mm. It was found that field effect mobility was 0.039 cm2V-1s-1, threshold voltage was -8 V, and on/off current ratio was 106. Further details will be discussed.

In this study, organic electroluminescent devices(OELD) with a structure of a glass substrate/ITO/TPD/Tb(ACAC)3(Phen-Cl)/Alq3/Al was fabricated by vacuum evaporation method, where Tb complex was known to have green light emitting property. Electroluminescent(EL) and I-V characteristics of this structure were investigated. This triple-layer structure shows the green EL spectrum at the wavelwngth of 546nm, which is almost the same as the PL spectrum of Pb(ACAC)3(PhenCl). It was found in current-voltage(I-V) characteristics of the devices that the operating voltage was about 12V.