Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Flexible Technologies

CHAPTER 1

Flexible Organic Single-Crystal Field-EffectTransistors

Alejandro L. Briseno

Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA

CONTENTS

Introduction

Macroscopic organic single crystals

Micropatterned organic single crystals

Organic single-crystal nanowires

Conclusion

References

INTRODUCTION

The majority of research on flexible electronics has been focused on polycrystalline organic thin films [1, 2], carbon nanotubes [3, 4] and inorganic structures [5]. Much less work has been accomplished in determining the limits of flexibility of organic single-crystal transistors [6, 7]. Organic single crystals have been limited to fundamental charge-transport studies and for determining the performance limitation of organic ...