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Improved Performance p-type Polymer (P3HT) / n-type Nanotubes (WS2) Electrolyte Gated Thin-Film Transistor

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This work decribes the enhancement of the electrical figures of merit of an Electrolyte Gated Thin-Film Transistor (EG-TFT) comprising a nanocomposite of n-type tungsten disulfide (WS2) nanotubes (NTs) dispersed in a regio-regular p-type poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) polymeric matrix. P3HT/WS2 nanocomposites loaded with different concentrations of NTs, serving as EG-TFTs electronic channel materials have been studied and the formulation has been optimized. The resulting EG-TFTs figures of merit (field-effect mobility, threshold voltage and on-off ratio) are compared with those of the device comprising a bare P3HT semiconducting layer. The optimized P3HT/WS2 nanocomposite, comprising a 60% by weight of NTs, results in an improvement of all the elicited figures of merit with a striking ten-fold increase in the field-effect mobility and the on/off ratio along with a sizable enhancement of the in-water operational stability of the device.

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  1. Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Bari “A. Moro”, Bari, Italy

    Eleonora Macchia, Rosaria Anna Picca, Kyriaki Manoli, Nicola Cioffi & Luisa Torsi

  2. HIT-Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel

    Alla Zak

  3. CNR - Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Sede di Bari (I), Israel

    Cinzia Di Franco & Gaetano Scamarcio

  4. Dipartimento di Fisica “M. Merlin “, Università degli Studi di Bari – “Aldo Moro” - Bari (I), Israel

    Gaetano Scamarcio

  5. Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    Reshef Tenne

  6. Abo Akademi Univeristy, Turku, Finland

    Luisa Torsi

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Macchia, E., Zak, A., Picca, R.A. et al. Improved Performance p-type Polymer (P3HT) / n-type Nanotubes (WS2) Electrolyte Gated Thin-Film Transistor. MRS Advances 3, 1525–1533 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2018.311

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