General observation of n-type field-effect behaviour in organic semiconductors

Nature

Volumn 434, Issue 7030, 2005, Pages 194-199

  Chua, Lay Lay ^a,b   Zaumseil, Jana ^a   Chang, Jui Fen ^a   Ou, Eric C W ^c   Ho, Peter K H ^a,b   Sirringhaus, Henning ^a   Friend, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COPOLYMERS; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRON TRAPS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

HYDROXYL GROUPS; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; POLYFLUORENE COPOLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR-DIELECTRIC INTERFACE;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

COPOLYMER; CYCLOBUTANE DERIVATIVE; DIVINYLTETRAMETHYLSILOXANE BIS(BENZOCYCLOBUTENE) DERIVATIVE; METAL OXIDE; POLY (4 PHENYLENE VINYLENE); POLYFLUORENE COPOLYMER; POLYMER; SILICON DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYL DERIVATIVE;

SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON; ELECTRONICS; MATERIALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 15244338556     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03376     Document Type: Article

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