Controlled orientation of liquid-crystalline polythiophene semiconductors for high-performance organic thin-film transistors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Wu, Yiliang ^a   Liu, Ping ^a   Ong, Beng S ^a   Srikumar, Tharan ^a   Zhao, Ni ^b   Botton, Gianluigi ^b   Zhu, Shiping ^b  

^a XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); LIQUID CRYSTAL POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SILANES; SILICA; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

DIELECTRIC LAYERS; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE POLYTHIOPHENE SEMICONDUCTORS; ORGANIC CHANNEL SEMICONDUCTORS; ORGANIC THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS (OTFT);

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 17444412254     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1894597     Document Type: Article

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