A main factor contributing to bias stress instability in organic transistors is charge trapping of mobile carriers near the gate insulator-semiconductor interface into localized electronic states. In this paper, we study the bias stress behavior in low-voltage (p-type) polyelectrolyte-gated organic field effect transistors (EGOFETs) at various temperatures. Stressing and recovery in these EGOFETs are found to occur six orders of magntiude faster than typical bias stress/recovery reported for dielectric-gated OFETs. The mechanism proposed for EGOFETs involves an electron transfer reaction between water and the charged semiconductor channel that promotes the creation of extra protons diffusing into the polyelectrolyte.
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See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4798512 for above-ambient temperature dependent measurements and threshold voltage shift fitted with the stretched-exponential function.
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