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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