Organic electronic component with high-resolution structuring and method for the production thereof

• US 20060118778A1
• Filed: 11/05/2003
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2002
• 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: Clemens, Wolfgang, Fix, Walter, Ullmann, Andreas, Manuelli, Alessandro
• Application Number:
  US10/533,756
• Publication Number:
  US 20060118778A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/40
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 10/46 Field-effect transistors, e.g. organic thin-film transistors [OTFT] H10K10/43 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/60 Forming conductive regions or layers, e.g. electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/611 using printing deposition, e.g. ink jet printing
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/111 comprising aromatic, heteroaromatic, or aryl chains, e.g. polyaniline, polyphenylene or polyphenylene vinylene
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/1135 Polyethylene dioxythiophene [PEDOT]; Derivatives thereof

Abstract

The invention concerns an organic electronic component with high-resolution structuring, in particular an organic field effect transistor (OFET) with a small source-drain spacing, and a process for the production thereof. The organic electronic component has recesses in which the conductor tracks/electrodes are arranged and which are burnt in by means of laser in the production procedure.

Claims

1. An organic electronic component including a lower layer having a top surface with a spacing I between two adjacent conductor tracks, two adjacent electrodes and/or between a conductor track and an electrode of less than 10 μ

m in the lower layer, wherein at least one conductor track and/or electrode is arranged in a recess of the lower layer, wherein the recess is produced by a laser, the recess having relatively steep side walls generally perpendicular to the top surface and a bottom surface, the recess exhibiting relatively sharp contours at the junction of the side walls with the bottom recess surface and with the lower layer top surface and a relatively rough bottom surface as compared to the top surface of the lower layer.

2. A process for the production of an organic electronic component including a substrate or lower layer having a top surface, the process for producing a conductor track and/or an electrode in the substrate or lower layer by burning at least one recess into the lower layer or into the substrate by emitting a laser beam through a mask, wherein said recess has a bottom surface and relatively steep walls relative to the top surface, the recess exhibiting relatively sharp contours between the side walls and bottom surface and between the side walls and the top surface and a rough surface at the bottom surface as compared to the top surface, and then filling the recess in a subsequent process step with conductive, predominantly organic material.

3. A process as set for the in claim 2 wherein the conductive material is scraped into the recess.

4. A process as set forth in one of claims 2 and 3 wherein excess conductive organic material is wiped away in a process step following the step of filling the recess with said material.

5. A process as set forth in one of claims 2 through 3 wherein the laser is pulsed.

6. A process as set forth in one of claims 2 through 3 which is performed in a continuous roll-to-roll procedure.

7. A process as set forth in claim 6 wherein the roll-to-roll procedure including pressing or guiding the substrate or lower layer with pressing or guide rollers and wiping off the excess organic material from the top surface with a wiping roller, the wiping roller rotating more slowly than the pressing or guide rollers.

8. The process as set forth in one of claims 2 and 3 wherein the laser is an excimer laser.