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Theory of the field-effect mobility in amorphous organic transistors

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The field-effect mobility in an organic thin-film transistor is studied theoretically. From a percolation model of hopping between localized states and a transistor model an analytic expression for the field-effect mobility is obtained. The theory is applied to describe the experiments by Brown et al. [Synth. Met. 88, 37 (1997)] on solution-processed amorphous organic transistors, made from a polymer (polythienylene vinylene) and from a small molecule (pentacene). Good agreement is obtained, both with respect to the gate-voltage and the temperature dependence of the mobility.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9802133,
  title  = {Theory of the field-effect mobility in amorphous organic transistors},
  author = {M. C. J. M. Vissenberg and M. Matters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9802133},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages RevTeX, 2 Postscript figures