Multilayer laser printing for Organic Thin Film Transistors

Functional laser printed Organic Thin Film Transistors (OTFTs) have been achieved from multilayer substrates composed with semiconductor and electrodes. The p-type copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) was used to form the active layer. Different kinds of metallic materials were used for source and drain electrodes. Multilayer donor substrates were prepared by the successive depositions of materials by either thermal evaporation under vacuum or laser printing. The materials were transferred together in a single step onto a receiver substrate by laser pulses in the picosecond regime. The latter substrate formed the gate and the dielectric of the transistor. The results are compared with the step-by-step laser printing process, where electrodes and organic layer were successively printed from two different donor substrates. The multilayer laser printing reveals an improvement of the performances of the OTFT devices.

Research highlights▶ Laser printing of organic CuPc semiconductor leads to operational OTFTs. ▶ LIFT can print multilayer systems with high spatial resolution and no damage in the layers. ▶ Improvement of OTFT performances in printing a multilayer system made of organic semiconductor and metallic electrodes. ▶ Best OTFT performances obtained with silver electrodes.