Vertical organic electrochemical transistors for complementary circuits

Huang, Wei; Chen, Jianhua; Yao, Yao; Zheng, Ding; Ji, Xudong; Feng, Liang-Wen; Moore, David; Glavin, Nicholas R.; Xie, Miao; Chen, Yao; Pankow, Robert M.; Surendran, Abhijith; Wang, Zhi; Xia, Yu; Bai, Libing; Rivnay, Jonathan; Ping, Jianfeng; Guo, Xugang; Cheng, Yuhua; Marks, Tobin J.; Facchetti, Antonio

doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05592-2

Vertical organic electrochemical transistors for complementary circuits

Journal Article · Wed Jan 18 04:00:00 EST 2023 · Nature (London)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05592-2· OSTI ID:2423732

; ; ; ; ; Feng, Liang-Wen; Moore, David; Glavin, Nicholas R.; Xie, Miao; Chen, Yao; ; Surendran, Abhijith; Wang, Zhi; Xia, Yu; ; ; Ping, Jianfeng; ; ; more »

Abstract

Organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) and OECT-based circuitry offer great potential in bioelectronics, wearable electronics and artificial neuromorphic electronics because of their exceptionally low driving voltages (<1 V), low power consumption (<1 µW), high transconductances (>10 mS) and biocompatibility^1–5. However, the successful realization of critical complementary logic OECTs is currently limited by temporal and/or operational instability, slow redox processes and/or switching, incompatibility with high-density monolithic integration and inferior n-type OECT performance^6–8. Here we demonstrate p- and n-type vertical OECTs with balanced and ultra-high performance by blending redox-active semiconducting polymers with a redox-inactive photocurable and/or photopatternable polymer to form an ion-permeable semiconducting channel, implemented in a simple, scalable vertical architecture that has a dense, impermeable top contact. Footprint current densities exceeding 1 kA cm⁻²at less than ±0.7 V, transconductances of 0.2–0.4 S, short transient times of less than 1 ms and ultra-stable switching (>50,000 cycles) are achieved in, to our knowledge, the first vertically stacked complementary vertical OECT logic circuits. This architecture opens many possibilities for fundamental studies of organic semiconductor redox chemistry and physics in nanoscopically confined spaces, without macroscopic electrolyte contact, as well as wearable and implantable device applications.

Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 2423732

Journal Information:: Nature (London), Journal Name: Nature (London) Journal Issue: 7944 Vol. 613; ISSN 0028-0836

Publisher:: Nature Publishing Group

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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