High performance vertical-type organic transistors were fabricated using a simple structure composed of organic/metal/organic layers. This device could modulate a sheet current between emitter and collector by a voltage application to the thin metal base electrode inserted in between. When C60 and perylene derivatives were used for the channel layer, the modulated collector current exceeded 300 mA/cm2 by applying only several volts of base voltage, and cut-off frequency exhibited 2.6kHz. The operating mechanism for this device was discussed from the viewpoint of metal base transistors.
Shin-ya Fujimoto, Ken-ichi Nakayama, Masaaki Yokoyama, "High Performance Vertical Organic Transistor Using Sheet Metal Base" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies (NIP21), 2005, pp 20 - 23, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2005.21.1.art00009_1