title: Use of laser drilling in the manufacture of organic inverter circuits.
abstract: Inverter circuits have been made by connecting two high-quality pentacene field-effect transistors. A uniform and pinhole-free 900 nm thick polyimide gate-insulating layer was formed on a flexible polyimide film with gold gate electrodes and partially removed by using a CO2 laser drilling machine to make via holes and contact holes. Subsequent evaporation of the gold layer results in good electrical connection with a gold gate layer underneath the gate-insulating layer. By optimization of the settings of the CO2 laser drilling machine, contact resistance can be reduced to as low as 3 ohms for 180 microm square electrodes. No degradation of the transport properties of the organic transistors was observed after the laser-drilling process. This study demonstrates the feasibility of using the laser drilling process for implementation of organic transistors in integrated circuits on flexible polymer films.
authors.affiliation: Quantum Phase Electronics Center, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan.
authors.forename: Shingo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iba
authors.forename: Yusaku
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sekitani
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kawaguchi
authors.forename: Takayasu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakurai
authors.forename: Takao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Someya