I have synthesized a new semiconducting organic material for OFET application. Since I have no hands-on experience in fabrication, I would like to seek your suggestions on following queries:
What kind of substrate material should I choose? Alternatively, can I choose ITO-coated glass material as substrate material?
If so, whether ITO-coated glass material can act as "Gate"?
What kind of material is choose as an "dielectric layer"?
What kind of electrode is used for fabricating OFET? Does "Source" and "Drain" should be similar or different?
Kindly seeking your valuable suggestions. Thank you.
The answer to your questions depends on a number of factors: the properties of your semiconducting material, what you want to do with the FETs, what equipment you have access to etc.
Here is a link to an early semester thesis of mine showing one or two ways to do it (you might be most interested in sections 2 and 3)
Thanks Leopold Talirz for your kind reply. Firstly, we synthesized new semiconducting material and we need to check its applicability as OFET/TFT. Now, we don't have access to sophisticated instruments for fabricating OFET device. However, we would like to move on, hence, I would like to know:
Whether spin coating can be used as a technique to coat the dielectric and semiconducting material?
Can we use ITO coated plates as Gate other than Kapton-based substrates with pre-deposited unstructured Cr gate and SiNx?
I understand different metals such as Al and Au can be used as "Drain" and "Source". But I wanted to know whether "Silver" can also be used as "Drain" and 'Source"?
1. Spin-coating can, in principle, be used to deposit both the dielectric and the semiconductor. However, the solvent used for the semiconductor must not damage the dielectric (I don't have experience with doing both from solution - perhaps someone else would like to chip in?)
2. Yes. In my thesis I spin-coated the Cytop dielectric on ITO to verify that the mixture was fine (section 4.2).
3. Ag or Cu have also been used (see e.g. http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2008/jm/b808435a?page=search). Which contacts to use depends again on several factors, such as the type of transport (n vs p). See 2.3.2 in the semester thesis and reference 7 therein.
As you can read in a lot of articles on OFET, the easiest way to test a new organic semiconductor is to use a heavily doped silicon wafer with thermal oxide (100 nm is enough). The silicon wafer is the gate of the devices and the oxide is the gate dielectric. On this substrate the organic semiconductior can be deposited by thermal evaporation or by spin coating, depending on the formulation of the material. Source and drain contact can be evaporated through a shadow mask. Gold is the best choice for S/D contact of p-type semiconductor, but can be also used for n-type. Before the electric measurement the devices must be isolated to avoid leakage current. This can be done by mechanically scratching the semiconductor around the contact.