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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2011
We have devised a novel organic light-emitting transistor (OLET) with PN-hetero-boundary combined with hole and electron transport materials along carrier channels. In this device, a clear modulation of the current and luminance with the gate voltage is observed. The luminance of 100 cd/m2 or more has been observed at the source-source voltage of 15 V with the turn-on voltage of 10 V or less, which is lower than that of OLETs based on a single organic material. We have implemented the horizontal PN-hetero-boundary structure for the first time by using the photolithographic patterning of the organic semiconductor thin-films. This patterning technique can be applied to fabrication of not only organic light-emitting transistors we report in this paper but also organic integrated circuits or organic displays.