Highly oriented crystals at the buried interface in polythiophene thin-film transistors

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 222-228

  Kline, R Joseph ^a   McGehee, Michael D ^a   Toney, Michael F ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ORGANIC POLYMERS; PERMITTIVITY; POLYMERS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CURRENT FLOWS; POLYMER MORPHOLOGY; POLYTHIOPHENE;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 33644615882     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1590     Document Type: Article

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