Design of a polymer-carbon nanohybrid junction by interface modeling for efficient printed transistors

ACS Nano

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 662-670

  Kim, Do Hwan ^a,d   Shin, Hyeon Jin ^a   Lee, Hyo Sug ^a   Lee, Jiyoul ^a   Lee, Bang Lin ^a   Lee, Wi Hyoung ^b   Lee, Jong Hwa ^c   Cho, Kilwon ^b   Kim, Woo Jae ^c   Lee, Sang Yoon ^a   Choi, Jae Young ^a   Kim, Jong Min ^a  

^a SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^c Gachon University   (South Korea)

^d Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

binding energy; density of state; electrostatic interaction; polymer carbon nanohybrid; printed transistors

Indexed keywords

BACKBONE STRUCTURES; DENSITY OF STATE; ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTION; HIGH MOBILITY; INTERFACE MODELING; NANO-HYBRID FILM; NANOHYBRIDS; OFF-CURRENT; POLYMER SEMICONDUCTORS; PRINTED TRANSISTORS; SEPARATION METHODS; SIDE-CHAINS; SINGLE-COMPONENT SYSTEMS;

BINDING ENERGY; CARBON; CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROSTATICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; POLYMERS; PRASEODYMIUM COMPOUNDS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; TRANSISTORS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; NANOTUBES, CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 84856205880     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn2041472     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Katz, H. E.; Bao, Z.; Gilat, S. L. Synthetic Chemistry for Ultrapure, Processable, and High-Mobility Organic Transistor Semiconductors Acc. Chem. Res. 2001, 34, 359-369
2. Dimitrakopoulos, C. D.; Malenfant, P. R. L. Organic Thin Film Transistors for Large Area Electronics Adv. Mater. 2002, 14, 99-117
3. Sirringhaus, H.; Brown, P. J.; Friend, R. H.; Nielsen, M. M.; Bechgaard, K.; Langeveld-Voss, B. M. W.; Spiering, A. J. H.; Janssen, R. A. J.; Meijer, E. W.; Herwig, P. et al. Two-Dimensional Charge Transport in Self-Organized, High-Mobility Conjugated Polymers Nature 1999, 401, 685-688
4. McCulloch, I.; Heeney, M.; Bailey, C.; Genevicius, K.; MacDonald, I.; Shkunov, M.; Sparrowe, D.; Tierney, S.; Wagner, R.; Zhang, W. et al. Liquid-Crystalline Semiconducting Polymers with High Charge-Carrier Mobility Nat. Mater. 2006, 5, 328-333
5. Kagan, C. R.; Mitzi, D. B.; Dimitrakopoulos, C. D. Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials as Semiconducting Channels in Thin-Film Field-Effect Transistors Science 1999, 286, 945-947
6. Huynh, W. U.; Dittmer, J. J.; Alivisatos, A. P. Hybrid Nanorod-Polymer Polar Cells Science 2002, 295, 2425-2427
7. Singh, S. P.; Ooi, Z.-E.; Geok, S. N. L.; Goh, G. K. L.; Dodabalapur, A. Electrical Characteristics of Zinc Oxide-Organic Semiconductor Lateral Heterostructure Based Hybrid Field-Effect Bipolar Transistors Appl. Phys. Lett. 2011, 98, 073302-073304
8. Blumstengel, S.; Glowatzki, H.; Sadofev, S.; Koch, N.; Kowarik, S.; Rabe, J. P.; Henneberger, F. Band-Offset Engineering in Organic/Inorganic Semiconductor Hybrid Structures Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2010, 12, 11642-11646
9. Sofos, M.; Goldberger, J.; Stone, D. A.; Allen, J. E.; Ma, Q.; Herman, D. J.; Tsai, W.-W.; Lauhon, L. J.; Stupp, S. I. A Synergistic Assembly of Nanoscale Lamellar Photoconductor Hybrids Nat. Mater. 2009, 8, 68-75
10. Liscio, A.; Veronese, G. P.; Treossi, E.; Suriano, F.; Rossella, F.; Bellani, V.; Rizzoli, R.; Samorì, P.; Palermo, V. Charge Transport in Graphene-Polythiophene Blends as Studied by Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy and Transistor Characterization J. Mater. Chem. 2011, 21, 2924-2931
11. Hu, L.; Hecht, D. S.; Grüner, G. Carbon Nanotube Thin Films: Fabrication, Properties, and Applications Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 5790-5844
12. Kang, S. J.; Kocabas, C.; Ozel, T.; Shim, M.; Pimparkar, N.; Alam, M. A.; Rotkin, S. V.; Rogers, J. A. High-Performance Electronics using Dense, Perfectly Aligned Arrays of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Nat. Nanotechnol. 2007, 2, 230-236
13. Snow, E. S.; Perkins, F. K.; Houser, E. J.; Badescu, S. C.; Reinecke, T. L. Chemical Detection with a Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Capacitor Science 2005, 307, 1942-1945
14. Sun, D.; Timmermans, M. Y.; Tian, Y.; Nasibulin, A. G.; Kauppinen, E. I.; Kishimoto, S.; Mizutani, T.; Ohno, Y. Flexible High-Performance Carbon Nanotubes Integrated Circuits Nat. Nanotechnol. 2011, 6, 156-161
15. LeMieux, M. C.; Roberts, M.; Barman, S.; Jin, Y. W.; Kim, J. M.; Bao, Z. Self-Sorted, Aligned Nanotube Networks for Thin-Film Transistors Science 2008, 321, 101-104
16. Harris, K. D.; Xiao, S.; Lee, C. Y.; Strano, M. S.; Nuckolls, C.; Blanchet, G. B. High Mobility, Air-Stable Organic Transistors from Hexabenzocoronene/Carbon Nanotube Bilayers J. Phys. Chem. C 2007, 111, 17947-17951
17. Kumar, S.; Blanchet, G. B.; Hybertsen, M. S.; Murthy, J. Y.; Alam, M. A. Performance of Carbon Nanotube-Dispersed Thin-Film Transistors Appl. Phys. Lett. 2006, 89, 143501-143503
18. Geng, J.; Zeng, T. Influence of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Induced Crystallinity Enhancement and Morphology Change on Polymer Photovoltaic Devices J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 16827-16833
19. Holt, J. M.; Ferguson, A. J.; Kopidakis, N.; Larsen, B. A.; Bult, J.; Rumbles, G.; Blackburn, J. L. Prolonging Charge Separation in P3HT-SWNT Composites using Highly Enriched Semiconducting Nanotubes Nano Lett. 2010, 10, 4627-4633
20. Ferguson, A. J.; Blackburn, J. L.; Holt, J. M.; Kopidakis, N.; Tenent, R. C.; Barnes, T. M.; Heben, M. J.; Rumbles, G. Photo Induced Energy and Charge Transfer in P3HT:SWNT Composites J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2010, 1, 2406-2411
21. Liao, S.-Y.; Maneux, C.; Pouget, V.; Fré gonè se, S.; Zimmer, T. Compact Modeling of Optically Gated Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor Status Solidi B 2010, 247, 1858-1861
22. Borghetti, J.; Derycke, V.; Lenfant, S.; Chenevier, P.; Filoramo, A.; Goffman, M.; Vuillaume, D.; Bourgoin, J.-P. Optoelectronic Switch and Memory Devices Based on Polymer Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Transistors Adv. Mater. 2006, 18, 2535-2540
23. Wang, F.; Gu, H.; Swager, T. M. Carbon Nanotube/Polythiophene Chemiresistive Sensors for Chemical Warfare Agents J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 5392-5393
24. Park, Y. D.; Lima, J. A.; Jang, Y.; Hwang, M.; Lee, H. S.; Lee, D. H.; Lee, H.-J.; Baek, J.-B.; Cho, K. Enhancement of the Field-Effect Mobility of Poly(3-hexylthiophene)/Functionalized Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Transistors Org. Electron. 2008, 9, 317-322
25. Liu, S.; Mannsfeld, S. C. B.; LeMieux, M. C.; Lee, H. W.; Bao, Z. Organic Semiconductor-Carbon Nanotube Bundle Bilayer Field Effect Transistors with Enhanced Mobilities and High On/Off Ratios Appl. Phys. Lett. 2008, 92, 053306-053308
26. Tsukamoto, J.; Mata, J.; Matsuno, T. Organic Field Effect Transistors Using Composites of Semiconductive Polymers and Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 2007, 46, L396-L398
27. Bo, X. Z.; Lee, C. Y.; Strano, M. S.; Goldfinger, M.; Nuckolls, C.; Blanchet, G. B. Carbon Nanotubes-Semiconductor Networks for Organic Electronics: The Pickup Stick Transistor Appl. Phys. Lett. 2005, 86, 182102-182104
28. Ham, M.-H.; Paulus, G. L. C.; Lee, C. Y.; Song, C.; Kalantar-zadeh, K.; Choi, W.; Han, J.-H.; Strano, M. S. Evidence for High-Efficiency Exciton Dissociation at Polymer/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Interfaces in Planar Nano-heterojunction Photovoltaics ACS Nano 2010, 4, 6251-6259
29. Nish, A.; Hwang, J.-Y.; Doig, J.; Nicholas, R. J. Highly Selective Dispersion of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes using Aromatic Polymers Nat. Nanotechnol. 2007, 2, 640-646
30. Ozawa, H.; Fujigaya, T.; Niidome, Y.; Hotta, N.; Fujiki, M.; Nakashima, N. Rational Concept To Recognize/Extract Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with a Specific Chirality J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 2651-2657
31. Kanai, Y.; Grossman, J. C. Role of Semiconducting and Metallic Tubes in P3HT/Carbon-Nanotube Photovoltaic Heterojunctions: Density Functional Theory Calculations Nano Lett. 2008, 8, 908-912
32. Lu, F.; Meziani, M. J.; Cao, L.; Sun, Y.-P. Separated Metallic and Semiconducting Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Opportunities in Transparent Electrodes and Beyond Langmuir 2011, 27, 4339-4350
33. Kim, D. H.; Lee, B.-L.; Moon, H.; Kang, H. M.; Jeong, E. J.; Park, J.-I.; Han, K.-M.; Lee, S.; Yoo, B. W.; Koo, B. W. et al. Liquid-Crystalline Semiconducting Copolymers with Intramolecular Donor-Acceptor Building Blocks for High-Stability Polymer Transistors J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6124-6132
34. Kim, W.-J.; Usrey, M. L.; Strano, M. S. Selective Functionalization and Free Solution Electrophoresis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Separate Enrichment of Metallic and Semiconducting SWNT Chem. Mater. 2007, 19, 1571-1576
35. Kim, W.-J.; Nair, N.; Lee, C. Y.; Strano, M. S. Covalent Functionalization of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes Alters Their Densities Allowing Electronic and Other Types of Separation J. Phys. Chem. C 2008, 112, 7326-7331
36. Kymakis, E.; Amaratunga, A. J. In Organic PhotoVoltaics; Sun, S.-S.; Sariciftci, N. S., Eds.; CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, 2005.
37. Wang, J.; Früchtl, D.; Sun, Z.; Coleman, J. N.; Blau, W. J. Control of Optical Limiting of Carbon Nanotube Dispersions by Changing Solvent Parameters J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 114, 6148-6156
38. Star, A.; Stoddart, J. F.; Steuerman, D.; Diehl, M.; Boukai, A.; Wong, E. W.; Yang, X.; Chung, S.-W.; Choi, H.; Heath, J. R. Preparation and Properties of Polymer-Wrapped Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2001, 40, 1721-1725
39. Loi, M. A.; Gao, J.; Cordella, F.; Blondeau, P.; Menna, E.; Bártová, B.; Hébert, C.; Lazar, S.; Botton, G. A.; Milko, M. et al. Encapsulation of Conjugated Oligomers in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Towards Nanohybrids for Photonic Devices Adv. Mater. 2010, 22, 1635-1639
40. Takenobu, T.; Takano, T.; Shiraishi, M.; Murakami, Y.; Ata, M.; Kataura, H.; Achiba, Y.; Iwasa, Y. Stable and Controlled Amphoteric Doping by Encapsulation of Organic Molecules inside Carbon Nanotubes Nat. Mater. 2003, 2, 683-688
41. Rucha, P. W.; Hardwick1, L. J.; Hahn, M.; Foelskea, A.; Kötz, R.; Wokauna, A. Electrochemical Doping of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Double Layer Capacitors Studied by in Situ Raman Spectroscopy Carbon. 2009, 47, 38-52
42. Farhat, H.; Sasaki, K.; Kalbac, M.; Hofmann, M.; Saito, R.; Dresselhaus, M. S.; Kong, J. Softening of the Radial Breathing Mode in Metallic Carbon Nanotubes Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009, 102, 126804-126808
43. Kresse, G.; Hafner, J. Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics for Liquid Metals Phys. Rev. B 1993, 47, 558-561
44. Kresse, G.; Hafner, J. Ab Initio Molecular-Dynamics Simulation of the Liquid-Metal-Amorphous-Semiconductor Transition in Germanium Phys. Rev. B 1994, 49, 14251-14269
45. Kresse, G.; Furthmüller, J. Efficiency of ab-Initio Total Energy Calculations for Metals and Semiconductors using a Plane-Wave Basis Set Comput. Mater. Sci. 1996, 6, 15-50
46. Kresse, G.; Furthmüller, J. Efficient Iterative Schemes for ab Initio Total-Energy Calculations using a Plane-Wave Basis Set Phys. Rev. B 1996, 54, 11169-11186
47. Blochl, P. E. Projector Augmented-Wave Method Phys. Rev. B 1994, 50, 17953-17979
48. Liu, H.; Nishide, D.; Tanaka, T.; Kataura, H. Large-Scale Single-Chirality Separation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes by Simple Gel Chromatography Nat. Commun. 2011, 2, 309
49. 3 Doping J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 12757-12761
50. Grimme, S. Semiempirical GGA-Type Density Functional Constructed with a Long-Range Dispersion Correction Comput. Chem. 2006, 27, 1787-1799
51. Kresse, G.; Joubert, D. From Ultrasoft Pseudopotentials to the Projector Augmented-Wave Method Phys. Rev. B 1999, 59, 1758-1775