Environmentally sustainable organic field effect transistors

• DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2010.09.007
• Publication Date: 2010-09-29T06:21:58Z
• Authors: Mihai Irimia-Vladu; Pavel A. Troshin; Melanie Reisinger; Guenther Schwabegger; Mujeeb Ullah; Reinhard Schwoedi...; Alexander Mumyatov; Marius Bodea; Jeffrey W. Fergus; Vladimir F. Razumov
• Keywords: Environmentally Friendly; Electronic waste; Printed Electronics; Biocompatible material; Organic Electronics; Electronic materials

Environmentally sustainable systems for the design, production, and handling of electronic devices should be developed to solve the dramatic increase in electronic waste. Sustainability in plastic electronics may be the production of electronic devices from natural materials, or materials found in common commodity products accepted by society. Thereby biodegradable, biocompatible, bioresorbable, or even metabolizable electronics may become reality. Transistors with an operational voltage as low as 6 V, a source drain current of up to 0.5 lA and an on–off ratio up to four orders of magnitude, with saturated field effect mobilities in the range of 1.5 10 4