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Abstract
Organic field effect transistors (OFETs), used in the fabrication of nanosensors, are one of the most promising devices in organic electronics because of their lightweight, flexibility, and low fabrication cost. However, the optimization of such OFETs is still in an early stage due to the minimal analytical and numerical models presented in the literature.
Objective: This research presses to demonstrate a numerical carrier transport model based on the finite element method (FEM) to investigate the I-V characteristic of OFETs.
Methods: Two various organic semiconductor materials have been included in the study, polyaniline and pentacene, where micro-scale, as well as nano-scale models have been presented. OFETs regarding channel length, dielectric thickness, and doping level impact have been studied. We nominated the threshold voltage, the on/off current ratio, the sub-threshold swing, and the field effect mobilities as the primary output evaluating parameters.
Results: The numerical model has shown the criticality of the doping effect on tuning the device flowing drain current to exceed 300 µA saturation current, along with a threshold voltage of -0.1 V under a channel length of 30 nm.
Conclusion: The study highlights the effectiveness of polyaniline over pentacene as nano-channel length OFET due to the boosted conductivity of polyaniline concerning pentacene.
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