We report on the fabrication of pentacene-based transparent thin-film transistors (TTFT) that consist of NiOx, AlOx, and indium-tin-oxide (ITO) for the source-drain (S/D) electrode, gate dielectric, and gate electrode, respectively. The NiOx S/D electrodes of which the work function is well matched to that of pentacene were deposited on a 50-nm-thick pentacene channel by thermal evaporation of NiO powder and showed a moderately low but still effective transmittance of 25% in the visible range along with a good sheet resistance of 60Ω. The maximum saturation current of our pentacene-based TTFT was about 15μA at a gate bias of 40V showing a high field effect mobility of 0.9cm2Vs in the dark, and the on/off current ratio of our TTFT was about 5×105. It is concluded that jointly adopting NiOx for the S/D electrode and AlOx for gate dielectric realizes a high-quality pentacene-based TTFT.

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