Low-voltage large-current ion gel gated polymer transistors fabricated by a "cut and bond" process.

A "cut and bond" process using a commercial die bonder was developed for fabricating ion gel gated organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). It addresses the issues of damaging or contaminating the channel layer when depositing the ion gel layer on top in conventional fabrication processes. The formed isolated dielectric regions can help to eliminate possible lateral electric field coupling through the dielectric layer when several devices are integrated to construct functional circuits. The fabricated OTFTs provide mA-level ON current, and an ON/OFF current ratio higher than 10(5) with the gate swing voltage of less than 3 V. With the developed process, the ion gel OTFTs are integrated with inorganic light emitting diodes (LEDs) of different colors on plastic substrate using the same die bonder, and the light emission of the LEDs can be modulated in a wide range from dark to high brightness with change of the gate voltage less than 3 V.

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