Researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology in Korea have received Universal Display Corporation's 2020 Innovative Research and Pioneering Technology Award in Organic Electronics & Display, for their work 'High-Performance and Reliable Lead-Free Layered-Perovskite Transistors'. Universal Display (UDC) is a large OLED research company, considered to be a pioneer in field.
In their work, the scientists explain that despite extensive examination of perovskites' potential use in solar cells and light'emitting diodes, research on their applications in thin'film transistors (TFTs) has drawn less attention despite their high intrinsic charge carrier mobility. In this study, the universal approaches for high'performance and reliable p'channel lead'free phenethylammonium tin iodide TFTs are reported.
It is found that the grain boundary passivation can increase TFT reproducibility and reliability, and the grain size enlargement can hike the TFT performance, thus, enabling the first perovskite'based complementary inverter demonstration with n'channel indium gallium zinc oxide TFTs.
The inverter exhibits a high gain over 30 with an excellent noise margin. This work aims to provide widely applicable and repeatable methods to make the gate more open for intensive efforts toward high'performance printed perovskite TFTs.
