Abstract
Engineering the energy levels of organic conducting materials can be useful for developing high-performance organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), whose electrodes must be well controlled to facilitate easy charge carrier transport from the source to drain through an active channel. However, symmetric source and drain electrodes that have the same energy levels are inevitably unfavorable for either charge injection or charge extraction. In this study, asymmetric source and drain electrodes are simply prepared using the electrohydrodynamic (EHD)-jet printing technique after the careful work function engineering of organic conducting material composites. Two types of additives effectively tune the energy levels of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate-based composites. These solutions are alternately patterned using the EHD-jet printing process, where the use of an electric field makes fine jet control that enables to directly print asymmetric electrodes. The asymmetric combination of EHD-printed electrodes helps in obtaining advanced charge transport properties in p-type and n-type OFETs, as well as their organic complementary inverters. This strategy is believed to provide useful guidelines for the facile patterning of asymmetric electrodes, enabling the desirable properties of charge injection and extraction to be achieved in organic electronic devices.
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