IP Library Granted Patent US 12,207,536
Granted Patent B2
US 12,207,536 · App. 17/387,111 · Granted Jan 21, 2025

Film forming method for organic semiconductor film

Inventor: Eijiro Iwase (Minami-ashigara, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
H10K71/40H10K71/15H10K10/462
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Patent No.
US 12,207,536
App. No.
17/387,111
Granted
Jan 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An object of the present invention is to provide a film forming method for an organic semiconductor film, with which an organic semiconductor film having good uniformity and high mobility can be manufactured with good productivity. A coating liquid is prepared by dissolving an organic semiconductor material in a solvent, the coating liquid is sprayed by a spray unit, and the coating liquid is applied onto a temperature-controlled substrate while the coating liquid during the flight which has been sprayed by the spray unit is being heated, whereby problems are solved.

Claims (27)

1. A film forming method for an organic semiconductor film, comprising:

dissolving an organic semiconductor material in a solvent to prepare a coating liquid;

spraying the coating liquid with a spray unit; and

coating a temperature-controlled substrate with the coating liquid while heating the coating liquid during flight, which has been sprayed with the spray unit,

wherein the spray unit is an ultrasonic spray.

2. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein a surface roughness Ra of a distal end surface of a nozzle of the ultrasonic spray is 1 to 100 μm.

3. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the ultrasonic spray has a tapered protruding part on a peripheral part of a distal end surface of a nozzle.

4. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the coating liquid is prepared by heating.

5. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the heated coating liquid is supplied to the spray unit.

6. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the coating liquid is heated in a supply unit for supplying the coating liquid to the spray unit.

7. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein spraying is carried out while the coating liquid is heated in the spray unit.

8. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the coating liquid during flight is heated with an infrared heater.

9. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the coating liquid during flight is heated with a temperature-controlled cylinder that surrounds at least a part of a flight space of the coating liquid.

10. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the coating liquid during flight is heated with a temperature-controlled gas that flows on an outer side of a flight space of the coating liquid in a flight direction of the coating liquid.

11. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein the substrate is coated with the coating liquid while a flight space of the coating liquid is regulated with a gas that flows in a flight direction of the coating liquid.

12. The film forming method for an organic semiconductor film according to claim 1 ,

wherein a temperature of the substrate is controlled within ±10° C. of a temperature of the coating liquid that is supplied to a supply unit for supplying the coating liquid to the spray unit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 28, 2021
From: IWASE, EIJIRO
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 057007/0174 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2019-017672 · Feb 4, 2019 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2020001237 · Jan 16, 2020
Related Publication 20210359212A1 · Nov 18, 2021
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