The threshold voltage is an important property of organic field-effect transistors. By applying a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on the gate dielectric, the value can be tuned. After electrical characterization, the semiconductor is delaminated. The surface potentials of the revealed SAM perfectly agree with the threshold voltages, which demonstrate that the shift is not due to the dipolar contribution, but due to charge trapping by the SAM.
Keywords: organic field-effect transistors; organosilanes; scanning Kelvin-probe microscopy; self-assembly; threshold voltage.
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