SGER: Conjugated Polymer Transistors Based on Highly Oriented Structures for Active-Matrix Light Emitting Polymer Displays

通过研究有序共轭聚合物系统和开发设计方法来提高迁移率和电流驱动能力，从而推进共轭聚合物晶体管的最新发展。该项目将研究聚合物薄膜晶体管(TFT)，使用定向共轭聚合物来提高迁移率，并在聚合物中掺杂低分子化合物来增强电荷注入。德国开发的配方和材料将用于定向和掺杂聚茂烯，并将其应用于聚合场效应晶体管(FET)。将开发工艺方案来制造原型，以降低沟道的源极/漏极电阻，同时保持与聚合物工艺的兼容性。该项目团队将设计、制造和测试聚合场效应晶体管，以推进有源矩阵聚合物平板显示器。可以使用廉价的卷轴到卷轴批量技术制造的超薄且灵活的大面积显示器可能很快就会成为现实。柔性显示器和低生产成本使发光聚合物(LEP)成为平板显示器技术制造的一个有竞争力的选择。聚合物电子学的发展将推动这场革命，因为它们与LED集成到用于有源矩阵显示器的智能像素中。这项提议解决了实现这一目标的一些关键障碍。

To advance the state-of-the-art in conjugated polymeric transistors by examining ordered conjugated polymer systems and developing ways to engineer it for enhanced mobilities and improved current drive capability. This project will investigate polymeric thin film transistors (TFT) using oriented conjugated polymers to elevate mobility and polymers doped with low molecular weight compounds to enhance charge injection. Recipes and materials developed in Germany will be used to orient and dope the polyflourenes and apply them to polymeric field effect transistors (FET). Processing schemes will be developed to fabricate prototypes which reduce the source/drain resistance to the channel while maintaining compatibility with polymer processing.This project team will design, fabricate and test polymeric field effect transistors to advance active matrix polymeric flat panel displays. Large area displays, which could be manufactured using cheap reel-to-reel batch technology, and which are ultra-thin and flexible could become a reality soon. Flexible displays and low production costs make light emitting polymers (LEP) a competitive option for the manufacture of flat panel display technology. Development of polymer electronics will fuel this revolution by their integration with LEPs into smart pixels for active matrix displays. This proposal addresses some of the key impediments to this realization.