High‐mobility solution‐processed organic thin‐film transistor array for active‐matrix color liquid‐crystal displays

Abstract— A solution-processed organic thin-film-transistor array to drive a 5-in.-diagonal liquid-crystal display has been fabricated, where semiconductor films, a gate dielectric film, and passivation films have all been formed using solution processes. A field-effect mobility of 1.6 cm2/V-sec, which is among the highest for solution-processed organic thin-film transistors ever reported, was obtained. This result is due to semiconductor material with large-grain-sized pentacene crystals formed from a solution and adoption of three-layered passivation films that minimize the performance degradation of organic thin-film transistors.

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