Novel self-assembled phosphonic acids monolayers applied in N-channel perylene diimide (PDI) organic field effect transistors

Phosphoric acid (PA) self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) have been developed for applications in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). This efficient interface modification is helpful for semiconductor layer to form crystal thin film during vapor deposition. Results show that the PDI-i8C based OFETs with PA SAMs exhibit field-effect mobilities up to 0.014 cm2 V−1 s−1 (with ODPA as SAMs), which is over 500 times higher than the device without SAMs. Also, transistors with Naph6PA as SAMs show up to 1.5 × 10−3 cm2 V−1 s−1. By studying the morphology of semiconductor layer and SAMs surface, it is found that ODPA bilayer structure plays a key role in inducing PDI-i8C to form orderly crystal thin film.