Electronic component

• US 20090108253A1
• Filed: 07/27/2006
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2005
• 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: Fix, Walter, Knobloch, Alexander, Ullmann, Andreas, Welker, Merlin
• Application Number:
  US11/989,623
• Publication Number:
  US 20090108253A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 257/40
• CPC Class Codes: B82Y 10/00 Nanotechnology for information processing, storage or transmission, e.g. quantum computing or single electron logic
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/00 Indexing scheme for arrangements or methods for connecting or disconnecting semiconductor or solid-state bodies as covered by H01L24/00
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 2924/0002 Not covered by any one of groups H01L24/00, H01L24/00 and H01L2224/00
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 10/464 Lateral top-gate IGFETs comprising only a single gate
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 10/466 Lateral bottom-gate IGFETs comprising only a single gate
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 71/10 Deposition of organic active material
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 77/111 Flexible substrates
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/113 Heteroaromatic compounds comprising sulfur or selene, e.g. polythiophene
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/1135 Polyethylene dioxythiophene [PEDOT]; Derivatives thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/215 comprising substituents, e.g. PCBM
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/623 containing five rings, e.g. pentacene

Abstract

The invention relates to an electronic component comprising a flexible substrate, on the surface of which is arranged a layer stack composed of thin layers, containing at least one electrical functional layer composed of an electrically conductive or semiconducting material, wherein the component comprises at least a first material, a layered second material and a layered third material and wherein, as seen perpendicular to the surface of the substrate the first material is followed by the second material and the second material is followed by the third material, wherein a first adhesion force of the second material to the first material is lower than a second adhesion force of the third material to the first material and the second material has at least one opening, via which the third material is connected to the first material in order to increase the adhesion of the second material to the first material.

Claims

1. An electronic component comprising:

a flexible substrate having a surface; and

a layered stack on the substrate surface comprising a plurality of relatively thin layers, the stack containing at least one organic electrical functional layer composed of an electrically conductive or semiconducting material;

wherein the component comprises at least a layered first material, a layered second material and a layered third material; and

wherein, as seen perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, the first material is followed by the second material and the second material is followed by the third material; and

wherein the layered materials exhibit a first adhesion force of the second material to the first material is lower than a second adhesion force of the third material to the first material; and

wherein the second material has at least one opening, through which the third material is connected to the first material at the higher adhesion force to thereby increase the adhesion forces of the second material to the first material.

2. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the first adhesion force is at least 50% lower than the second adhesion force.

3. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first material forms the surface of the substrate, the second material forms a first layer on the substrate surface, and the third material forms a second layer on a surface of the first layer.

4. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the first, the second and the third materials form three layers of the layered stack.

5. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein each of the stack layers have a layer thickness within the range of 1 nm to 10 μ

m.

6. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the flexible substrate is a film of PET or PVP.

7. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the flexible substrate is multilayered.

8. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the layered second material delimits the at least one opening at at least 50% of the opening periphery.

9. The electronic component as claimed in claim 8, wherein the at least one opening has a periphery, and the layered second material delimits the at least one opening at 100% of the at least one opening periphery.

10. The electronic component as claimed in claim 8, wherein the layered second material has a periphery and an edge region, the at least one opening being in the edge region of the layered second material for lengthening the periphery of the layered second material.

11. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 further having at least one further opening is arranged in the edge region of the layered second material.

12. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the at least one opening has at its maximum cross section, as seen perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, a width within the range of 0.5 to 200 μ

m.

13. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second material has a layer thickness within the range of 1 to 200 nm.

14. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the third material has a layer thickness which is at least 10% of the layer thickness of the second material.

15. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein at least 5 to 10%, of a total area of the second material in the plane of the second material layer is occupied by openings.

16. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second material has, as seen perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, at every location a width that deviates by less than 25% from the width of the second material in any width direction of the second material.

17. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second material is electrically conductive, and is formed from at least one of a metal, a conductive polymer, a conductive adhesive, a conductive substance having conductive inorganic particles in a polymer matrix or from a paste/ink containing electrically conductive particles.

18. The electronic component as claimed in claim 17, wherein the second material functions as a first electrode in the electronic component.

19. The electronic component as claimed in claim 18, wherein the component includes a second electrode having a plurality of openings for increasing its flexibility.

20. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein as seen perpendicular to the surface of the substrate, the layered third material is followed by a further layered second material, in that the further second material is followed by a further additional layer, wherein the further second material has at least one opening through which the third material is connected to the further additional layer to increase the adhesion of the further second material to the further additional layer.

21. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second material is multilayered formed from a plurality of layers each layer comprising at least one of a metal, a polymer or a paste/ink.

22. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the third material forms the organic electrical functional layer composed of electrically conductive or semiconducting material.

23. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second material has at least two openings and wherein the at least two openings have the same cross section, as seen perpendicular to the surface of the substrate.

24. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second material has at least two openings and wherein the at least two openings have at least one different cross section, as seen perpendicular to the surface of the substrate.

25. The electronic component as claimed in claim 1 wherein the stacked layers of the electronic component are arranged to comprise one of an organic semiconductor field effect transistor (OFET), an organic diode, an organic capacitor having a voltage-controlled capacitance, as an organic resistor or an organic electrical conduction arrangement.

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