Boost up carrier mobility for ferroelectric organic transistor memory via buffering interfacial polarization fluctuation.

ABSTRACT: Ferroelectric organic field-effect transistors (Fe-OFETs) have been attractive for a variety of non-volatile memory device applications. One of the critical issues of Fe-OFETs is the improvement of carrier mobility in semiconducting channels. In this article, we propose a novel interfacial buffering method that inserts an ultrathin poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) between ferroelectric polymer and organic semiconductor layers. A high field-effect mobility (?FET) up to 4.6 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) is obtained. Subsequently, the programming process in our Fe-OFETs is mainly dominated by the switching between two ferroelectric polarizations rather than by the mobility-determined charge accumulation at the channel. Thus, the "reading" and "programming" speeds are significantly improved. Investigations show that the polarization fluctuation at semiconductor/insulator interfaces, which affect the charge transport in conducting channels, can be suppressed effectively using our method.

SUBMITTER: Sun H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4245676 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature