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Chapter 4 113<br />

Pentacene islands are formed by vacuum evaporation of C22H14<br />

from a Kurt J. Lesker Al2O3 source provided with an additional hot-lip<br />

at the base pressure of 1.2·10 -7 mbar with an average rate of 0.6Å/s.<br />

The pentacene material employed as evaporation source has<br />

been purchased from Sigma Aldrich and processed without any other<br />

purification. Gate masks, island masks and S/D contact masks are<br />

changed by breaking the vacuum and opening the evaporator chamber.<br />

3.2.1 PMMA gate-insulators processing<br />

PMMA is spin-coated from 4% and 8% (in weight) solutions in<br />

toluene solvent. Thus, three different thicknesses of polymeric<br />

dielectric have been obtained by varying the spin coating recipe and<br />

polymer concentration as reported in table 2.<br />

Sample id. PMMA<br />

thickness<br />

PMMA<br />

concentration<br />

(w/w)<br />

speed<br />

(rpm)<br />

Time<br />

(s)<br />

Acceleration<br />

(rpsqm)<br />

Ra<br />

(nm)<br />

Rq<br />

(nm)<br />

PMMA115 114nm 4% 3500 40 1500 1.2 1.9<br />

PMMA225 225nm 4% 1500 40 1000 1.3 1.6<br />

PMMA420 420nm 8% 3000 40 1500 1.2 1.4<br />

table 2: PMMA thickness recipe to obtain three different film thicknesses.<br />

Soon after deposition, toluene is drift off the film by thermal<br />

annealing on an hot-plate at 100°C for 2hr.<br />

3.2.2 PFTEOS:TEOS gate-insulators processing<br />

The materials used to prepare hydrophobic dielectric films are<br />

here below enumerated:<br />

• Aqueous solution (0.24M) of hydrochloric (HCl) acid<br />

• Poly-(methylmethacrylate) (PMMA) (Mw = 120,000Da) purchased<br />

from Sigma-Aldrich<br />

• Tetraethyl Orthosilicate (TEOS), purchased from Sigma-Aldrich<br />

Mw = 208.33Da

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