Profile control of inkjet printed silver electrodes and their application to organic transistors.

We report on the cross-sectional profile control of printed electrodes fabricated from silver nanoparticle inks with water-based solvents by inkjet printing. Systematically varying the ambient conditions and time for the drying process corresponded to changes in electrode shape. In general, lower humidity levels resulted in concave electrode profiles due to the coffee-ring effect, while higher humidity levels resulted in convex profiles. Printed capacitors with trapezoidal-shaped lower electrodes showed much better electrical breakdown strength than those with concave-shaped lower electrodes. Solution-processed organic thin-film transistors with trapezoidal gate electrodes operated reproducibly and exhibited good electrical characteristics with very low gate-leakage currents. The methods can be utilized in the fabrication of printed electronic devices with stacked layers, such as thin-film capacitors and transistors.

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