Reduced Water Vapor Transmission Rate of Graphene Gas Barrier Films for Flexible Organic Field-Effect Transistors

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• 作者：Kyoungjun Choi ; Sooji Nam ; Youngbin Lee ; Mijin Lee ; Jaeyoung Jang ; Sang Jin Kim ; Yong Jin Jeong ; Hyeongkeun Kim ; Sukang Bae ; Ji-Beom Yoo ; Sung M. Cho ; Jae-Boong Choi ; Ho Kyoon Chung ; Jong-Hyun Ahn ; Chan Eon Park ; Byung Hee Hong
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：June 23, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：9
• 期：6
• 页码：5818-5824
• 全文大小：579K
• ISSN：1936-086X

文摘

Preventing reactive gas species such as oxygen or water is important to ensure the stability and durability of organic electronics. Although inorganic materials have been predominantly employed as the protective layers, their poor mechanical property has hindered the practical application to flexible electronics. The densely packed hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms in graphene does not allow the transmission of small gas molecules. In addition, its outstanding mechanical flexibility and optical transmittance are expected to be useful to overcome the current mechanical limit of the inorganic materials. In this paper, we reported the measurement of the water vapor transmission rate (WVTR) through the 6-layer 10 脳 10 cm² large-area graphene films synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The WVTR was measured to be as low as 10^鈥? g/m²路day initially, and stabilized at 鈭?.48 g/m²路day, which corresponds to 7 times reduction in WVTR compared to bare polymer substrates. We also showed that the graphene-passivated organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) exhibited excellent environmental stability as well as a prolonged lifetime even after 500 bending cycles with strain of 2.3%. We expect that our results would be a good reference showing the graphene鈥檚 potential as gas barriers for organic electronics.