Complementary inverter using high mobility air-stable perylene di-imide derivatives

The authors report the fabrication and electrical characterization of organic complementary inverters using pentacene as p-type material and our previously reported air-stable perylene di-imide derivatives tetrachloro-perylene-tetracarboxyldi-imide (TC-PTCDI) and N,N′-bis(2-phenylethyl)perylene-3,4:9:10-bis-(dicarboximide) (BPE-PTCDI) as n-type materials. Both p- and n-type thin film transistors were integrated onto the same substrate using a top contact configuration. The corresponding inverters show good performance with gains about 12 and 10 for TC-PTCDI and BPE-PTCDI inverters, respectively.