Abstract
Thin films of various organic semiconductors, such as pentacene, sexithiophene, copper phthalocyanine, and C60, as well as an organic charge-transfer salt (TTF)(TCNQ) [TTF: tetrathiafulvalene; TCNQ: tetracyanoquinodimethane] are laser-irradiated to form conductive films, which are identified by Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy to be carbon. The resulting practically transparent films are as conductive as laser-sintered carbon films and show temperature-independent conductivity. Source and drain electrodes of organic field-effect transistors are patterned by this method; in these "self-contact" transistors, both the active layers and the electrodes are derived from the same organic film. The laser-sintered carbon films are also utilized for organic single-crystal transistors based on rubrene and TCNQ.