J. Mater. Sci. Technol. ›› 2026, Vol. 255: 170-180.DOI: 10.1016/j.jmst.2025.08.050

• Research Article • Previous Articles     Next Articles

High-stability organic transistors based on sandwich-structured composite dielectric layers

Yanping Ni1, Guoqiang Ren1, Xiaoli Zhao*, Pengbo Xi, Yao Fu, Guodong Zhao, Mingxin Zhang, Baoying Sun, Junru Zhang, Ning He, Jingchun Sun, Yutong Xie, Xiang Song, Yanhong Tong, Qingxin Tang*, Yichun Liu   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, Key Laboratory of UV-Emitting Materials and Technology Ministry of Education, School of Physics, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China
  • Received:2025-07-01 Revised:2025-08-14 Accepted:2025-08-20 Published:2026-06-01 Online:2025-09-20
  • Contact: * E-mail addresses: zhaoxl326@nenu.edu.cn (X. Zhao), tangqx@nenu.edu.cn (Q. Tang) .
  • About author:1These authors contributed equally to this work.

Abstract: Organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) are regarded as highly promising candidates for next-generation flexible electronics. However, device stability remains a major obstacle to OTFTs commercialization. Here, we propose the sandwich-structured composite dielectrics (OTS/DC 1-2577/SU8) for high-stability, high-performance, and high-uniformity organic devices. The composite dielectrics-based OTFTs demonstrate remarkable stability, with 15,000 s bias pressure stability and 25,700 switching cycles, outshining the well-established stable SiO2 devices. Additionally, the device features a low defect state density and near-zero hysteresis. More strikingly, a 16 × 16 high-stability flexible OTFT array was successfully fabricated, achieving outstanding performance uniformity with a mobility coefficient of variation of only 3.8 %. This metric is superior to that of the previously reported large-area flexible OTFT arrays. This work ingeniously designs a sandwich-structured composite dielectrics integrating superior environmental, operational, and mechanical stability, offering a novel and widely applicable approach to developing high-stability, high-performance, and high-uniformity organic transistors and greatly accelerating their industrialization.

Key words: High-stability, Sandwich-structured composite dielectric layers, Organic transistors, High-uniformity, High-performance