AIP Advances (Apr 2016)

Estimation of carrier mobility at organic semiconductor/insulator interface using an asymmetric capacitive test structure

  • Rajesh Agarwal,
  • Ashish K. Agarwal,
  • Baquer Mazhari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4948432
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 4
pp. 045017 – 045017-5

Abstract

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Mobility of carriers at the organic/insulator interface is crucial to the performance of organic thin film transistors. The present work describes estimation of mobility using admittance measurements performed on an asymmetric capacitive test structure. Besides the advantage of simplicity, it is shown that at low frequencies, the measured capacitance comes from a large area of channel making the capacitance-voltage characteristics insensitive to contact resistances. 2-D numerical simulation and experimental results obtained with Pentacene/Poly(4-vinyphenol) system are presented to illustrate the operation and advantages of the proposed technique.