Organic electronic component comprising the same organic material for at least two functional layers

• US 20060035423A1
• Filed: 11/13/2003
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/19/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG (Leonhard KURZ Stiftung & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG (Leonhard KURZ Stiftung & Company KG)
• Inventors: Rost, Henning, Fix, Walter
• Application Number:
  US10/535,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20060035423A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 438/197
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 10/462 Insulated gate field-effect transistors [IGFETs]
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/211 by selective transformation of an existing layer
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/236 using printing techniques, e.g. applying the etch liquid using an ink jet printer
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/60 Forming conductive regions or layers, e.g. electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/113 Heteroaromatic compounds comprising sulfur or selene, e.g. polythiophene
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/114 Poly-phenylenevinylene; Derivatives thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/115 Polyfluorene; Derivatives thereof

Abstract

The present invention describes an organic electronic component, such as an organic field effect transistor (OFET), in which a single organic material serves for at least two functional layers, for example as conductive and as semiconductive functional material. Moreover, the invention describes an efficient method for producing, in one process step, two functional layers, for example source and drain electrodes, and the semiconductor layer, for use in organic field effect transistors. The conductive or semiconductive regions in the semiconductive or conductive matrix are obtained, for example, by doping, for example by a partial redox reaction.

Claims

1. An electronic organic component comprising at least two functional layers adjacent to one another, the first functional layer being produced from the same organic material as the second and adjacent functional layer but differing at least partly therefrom in its electrical physical properties.

2. The electronic organic component as claimed in claim 1, in which one of the functional layers is semiconductive, the semiconductive functional Layer and at least one other functional layer differ only in their redox potential.

3. A method for the production of an organic electronic component, in which two different functional layers are produced in a single process step by converting a part of a functional layer into another functional layer by modification of the material by partial reaction.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, in which electrodes and/or conductor tracks and a semiconductive functional layer are produced with structuring in one process step and in one functional layer.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3 wherein one of the functional layers is a semiconductive layer, in which a conductive structure is introduced in a controlled manner into the semiconductive functional layer by partial covering and treatment of the uncovered regions with a redox composition.

6. The method as claimed in claim 3, in which one of the functional layers is a semiconductive layer and the semiconductive layer is covered by a photoresist.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5, in which the redox composition is partially applied to the semiconductive functional layer by printing.

8. The method as claimed in claim 3, in which a time-stable partial oxidation of the semiconductive functional layer is carried out by an oxidizing agent.

9. The method as claimed in claim 4, in which a conductive structure is introduced in a controlled manner into the semiconductive functional layer by partial covering and treatment of the uncovered regions with a redox composition.

10. The method as claimed in claim 4 in which the semiconductive layer is covered by a photoresist.

11. The method as claimed in claim 5 in which the semiconductive layer is covered by a photoresist.

12. The method as claimed in claim 3 wherein one of the functional layers is a semiconductive functional layer in which a redox composition is partially applied to the semiconductive functional layer by printing.

13. The method as claimed in claim 4 in which a redox composition is partially applied to the semiconductive functional layer by printing.

14. The method as claimed in claim 6 in which a redox composition is partially applied to the semiconductive functional layer by printing.

15. The method as claimed in claim 4 in which a time-stable partial oxidation of the semiconductive functional layer is carried out by an oxidizing agent.

16. The method as claimed in claim 5 in which a time-stable partial oxidation of the semiconductive functional layer is carried out by an oxidizing agent.

17. The method as claimed in claim 6 in which a time-stable partial oxidation of the semiconductive functional layer is carried out by an oxidizing agent.

18. The method as claimed in claim 7 in which a time-stable partial oxidation of the semiconductive functional layer is carried out by an oxidizing agent.