High-performance transparent inorganic-organic hybrid thin-film n-type transistors

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 893-900

  Wang, Lian ^a   Yoon, Myung Han ^a   Lu, Gang ^a   Yang, Yu ^a   Facchetti, Antonio ^a   Marks, Tobin J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; POWER CONTROL; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SUBSTRATES;

DRAIN-SOURCE CURRENT; HIGH-CAPACITANCE GATE DIELECTRIC; N-TYPE TRANSISTORS; SOLUTION-PHASE PROCESS;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33750465493     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1755     Document Type: Article

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