Fabrication of flexible thin organic transistors by trace water assisted transfer method

Abstract

The development of fabrication method for flexible thin organic electronic device is highly important for the flexible and wearable products. Herein, we develop a facile peel-off method to transfer organic thin film to various substrates. In this strategy, polyacrylonitrile (PAN) film can be easily peeled off with trace water and further transferred to various substrates. Using PAN as supporting and dielectric layers, high performance flexible organic transistors are fabricated. Remarkably, the method uses only micro volume water as an assist to peel off PAN film, which reduces the risk of contamination by solvent and greatly contributes to the performance maintenance.