This study presents the electrical characteristics and intrinsic properties of DBTTT single crystals. Mobility of DBTTT single crystal FETs as higher as 35.69 cm2/V•s at room temperature was calculated. Through X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis and c...
This study presents the electrical characteristics and intrinsic properties of DBTTT single crystals. Mobility of DBTTT single crystal FETs as higher as 35.69 cm2/V•s at room temperature was calculated. Through X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis and cross polarized microscopy we confirmed well-grown DBTTT single crystals along (001) axis. We found two types of DBTTT single crystals, which are platelet shape (α-phase) and micro-ribbon shape (β-phase). They exhibited different electrical characteristics, α-phase of DBTTT SC-FETs showed better electrical characteristics such as mobility compared to β-phase of SC-FETs. Therefore, we used α-phase of DBTTT SC-FETs to investigate charge transport mechanism. By measuring electrical characteristics along with channel directions, we confirmed that DBTTT SC-FETs exhibited isotropic mobility maintaining high mobility. As we measured electrical properties in low-temperature region, we observed thermally activated transport and band-like transport in different temperature regions. Firstly, thermally activated transport was observed in the range from 300 K to 205 K, and then band-like transport was observed below 205 K. Especially, rapid mobility drop was found in initial temperature region (300 K< T <280 K). After calculating trap density of states (trap DOS) in initial range, we confirmed that high activation energy can lead to mobility decrease. Trap DOS of DBTTT single crystal has similar values with other kinds of organic single crystals such as rubrene, DB-TTF, and pentacene, which proved DBTTT single crystal has comparable quality. Furthermore, we measured terahertz raman spectroscopy which allows us to know change of lattice structure and phase polymorphs by comparing intensity and raman shift. Comparing raman peaks between 300 K and 200 K, we observed the polymorphs showing shifted raman peaks and we concluded that polymorphs make the transition of charge transport mechanism in DBTTT single crystal.