Schematic representation of graphene templating of organic transistor with small molecules or polymer.
Our group published new research in collaboration with colleagues from Max Planck Institute from Mainz. We demonstrated that high-transconductance organic thin film transistors can be achieved by depositing electrochemically exfoliated graphene flakes at the gate-dielectric/organic semiconductor (OS) interface. This effect is applicable to both, solution processed, polymer-based and vacuum-evaporated small-molecule OS-based transistors. Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) transistors exhibit a factor of seven higher charge carrier mobility, while pentacene transistors exhibit a fourfold increase in charge carrier mobility, if graphene flakes are present at the dielectric/OS interface. More…