Comparative study of field-effect mobility with different expressions in organic thin film transistors

In organic thin film transistors (OTFTs), mobility generally exhibits field-effect dependence, and is strongly related to the disorder property of organic semiconductors used in OTFTs. Here, we compared three typical field-effect mobility models and used them to simulate the output characteristics of pentacene-based OTFTs. From the comparison of the theory and experiment, an analytic expression for the field-effect mobility to exactly describe the electrical characteristics of OTFTs was obtained. The better fit to the output characteristics of poly(9,9-dioctyl-fluorene-co-N-(4-butylphenyl)-diphenylamine) (TFB)-based OTFT and copper phthalocyanine (CuPc)-based OTFT by using the obtained analytic expression of the field-effect mobility further extended its applicability in OTFTs. This supplies a valuable manner to derive the field-effect mobility of carriers and understand the transport characteristics of carriers in OTFTs.