Solution-processed ambipolar organic field-effect transistors and inverters

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 678-682

  Meijer, E J ^a,b   De Leeuw, D M ^a   Setayesh, S ^a   Van Veenendaal, E ^a   Huisman, B H ^a   Blom, P W M ^c   Hummelen, J C ^c   Scherf, U ^d   Klapwijk, T M ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HOLE MOBILITY; INTERPENETRATING POLYMER NETWORKS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

AMBIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; GENERIC PROPERTIES; MONOCRYSTALLINE TECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC AMBIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0142027208     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat978     Document Type: Article

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