A bright future for organic field-effect transistors

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 605-613

  Muccini, Michele ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHTING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; SOLAR CELLS;

ELECTROLUMINESCENT PIXELS; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS; SOLID STATE LIGHTING;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33746629488     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1699     Document Type: Article

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