Device physics and charge transport of field-effect transistors based on advanced organic semiconductors and graphene

This dissertation consists of six chapters: In the first chapter, electrical and material properties and charge transport in organic semiconductors and graphene based field-effect transistors (FETs) are introduced. In the second chapter, device architectures of indenofluorene-phenanthrene copolymer based thin-film transistors (TFTs) are discussed. The combination of recessed source/drain and surface treatments on electrical contact and low-voltage-operated TFTs with solution-processed high-k dielectric are investigated. In the third chapter, device physics and charge transport of diketopyrrolopyrrole-naphthalene copolymer based TFTs are discussed. Top-gate TFTs with the polymer dielectric exhibit mobilities of ~1 cm2/V-s and charge transport measurements in steady-state and under non-quasi-static conditions reveal device physics in dual-gate configuration. In the fourth chapter, device characteristics and charge transport in ambipolar diketopyrrolopyrrole-benzothiadiazole copolymer based TFTs are focused. The ambipolar polymer TFTs possess balanced electron and hole mobilities which are both > 0.5 cm2/V-s. The trap density of states is calculated using two analytical methods developed by Lang et al. and Kalb and Batlogg. In the fifth chapter, charge transport of diketopyrrolopyrrole-thiophene copolymer based TFTs employing 4-point-probe configuration is studied. Such polymer TFTs possess the mobilities of up to 3 cm2/V-s. The activation energy as a function of carrier concentration represents multiple trapping and thermally release model or Monroe-type model of charge transport. In the sixth chapter, transformation of electrical characteristics of graphene FETs with an interacting capping layer of fluoropolymers and pi-conjugated organic semiconductors is investigated. The electrical properties of graphene by wafer-scale chemical vapor deposition can be favorably tuned by fluorocarbon capping methods.