Organic thin-film electronics from vitreous solution-processed rubrene hypereutectics

Nature Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 601-606

  Stingelin Stutzmann, Natalie ^a,b,c   Smits, Edsger ^a,d   Wondergem, Harry ^a   Tanase, Cristina ^d   Blom, Paul ^d   Smith, Paul ^b   De Leeuw, Dago ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING; EUTECTICS; EVAPORATION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALLINE QUALITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL COMPATIBILITY; RUBRENE; THERMAL TRANSFER;

THIN FILM DEVICES;

EID: 23244459722     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1426     Document Type: Article

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