IP Library Granted Patent US 8,969,852
Granted Patent B2
US 8,969,852 · App. 10/571,556 · Granted Mar 3, 2015

Organic electronic devices

Inventors: Paul A. Cain (Cambridge, GB); Henning Sirringhaus (Cambridge, GB); Nicholas J. Stone (Cambridge, GB); Thomas M. Brown (Rome, IT)
Assignee: Plastic Logic Limited
H01L27/28B82Y10/00B82Y30/00H01L27/283H01L51/052H01L51/0004H01L51/0036
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Patent No.
US 8,969,852
App. No.
10/571,556
Granted
Mar 3, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device including at least first and second transistors integrated together on a substrate and each including an organic semiconductor region, wherein the first and second transistors are either both n-type or both p-type but wherein one of the first and second transistors is a normally-ON transistor and the other of the first and second transistors is a normally-OFF transistor.

Claims (13)

1. An electronic device including at least first and second transistors integrated together on a substrate and each including an organic semiconductor region,

wherein the first and second transistors are both p-type but wherein one of the first and second transistors is a normally-ON transistor and the other of the first and second transistors is a normally-OFF transistor, and wherein each transistor comprises a semiconductor region coupled to a gate electrode via a dielectric region, and the dielectric regions of the two transistors are different from each other in terms of at least one property thereof;

wherein the dielectric regions have different chemical compositions; and

wherein said dielectric region of said normally ON-transistor contains an electron withdrawing group.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein said electron withdrawing group is a fluorine, chlorine, bromine, hydroxyl or cyano-containing group.

3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein, the dielectric regions comprise different organic materials.

4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the electron-withdrawing group stabilises the formation of a hole accumulation layer at an interface between the organic semiconductor region of said normally-ON transistor and the dielectric region of said normally-ON transistor.

5. An electronic device including at least first and second transistors integrated together on a substrate and each including an organic semiconductor region,

wherein the first and second transistors are both n-type but wherein one of the first and second transistors is a normally-ON transistor and the other of the first and second transistors is a normally-OFF transistor, and wherein each transistor comprises a semiconductor region coupled to a gate electrode via a dielectric region, and the dielectric regions of the two transistors are different from each other in terms of at least one property thereof;

wherein the dielectric regions have a different chemical compositions; and

wherein said dielectric region of said normally ON-transistor contains an electron donating group.

6. The device according to claim 5 , wherein said electron donating group comprises a metal atom, such as an alkali atom.

7. The device according to claim 5 , wherein the dielectric regions comprise different organic materials.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded May 5, 2016
From: PLASTIC LOGIC LIMITED
To: FLEXENABLE LIMITED
Reel/Frame 038617/0662 →
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded May 12, 2011
From: STATE CORPORATION "RUSSIAN CORPORATION OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES"
To: PLASTIC LOGIC LIMITED
Reel/Frame 026271/0377 →
SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Aug 3, 2010
From: PLASTIC LOGIC LIMITED
To: STATE CORPORATION "RUSSIAN CORPORATION OF NANOTECHNOLOGIES"
Reel/Frame 024776/0357 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 20, 2006
From: CAIN, PAUL A.; SIRRINGHAUS, HENNING; STONE, NICHOLAS J.; BROWN, THOMAS M.
To: PLASTIC LOGIC LIMITED
Reel/Frame 018133/0488 →
Priority Claims (1)
GB 0321383.2 · Sep 12, 2003 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20070040170A1 · Feb 22, 2007