Designing solution-processable air-stable liquid crystalline crosslinkable semiconductors

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1847, 2006, Pages 2779-2787

  McCulloch, Iain ^a   Bailey, Clare ^a   Genevicius, Kristijonas ^a   Heeney, Martin ^a   Shkunov, Maxim ^a   Sparrowe, David ^a   Tierney, Steven ^a   Zhang, Weimin ^a   Baldwin, Rodney ^b   Kreouzis, Theo ^b   Andreasen, Jens W ^c   Breiby, Dag W ^c   Nielsen, Martin M ^c   Cammidge, A N ^d   Picken, S J ^e  

^a Merck Chemicals   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Field effect transistor; Liquid crystal; Organic semiconductor

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750514355     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1854     Document Type: Article

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