Spatial control of the recombination zone in an ambipolar light-emitting organic transistor

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-74

  Zaumseil, Jana ^a   Friend, Richard H ^a   Sirringhaus, Henning ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRONS; PHYSICS; SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

AMBIPOLAR TRANSPORT REGIMES; RECOMBINATION ZONE; SEMICONDUCTOR-DIELECTRIC INTERFACES; SOURCE-DRAIN BIAS;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 30044446734     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1537     Document Type: Article

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