Hysteresis in pentacene-based organic thin-film transistors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6336, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gu, Gong ^a   Kane, Michael G ^a  

^a SARNOFF CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptors; Carrier trapping; Electron traps; Hysteresis; Memory effects; Organic field effect transistors; Organic thin film transistors; Pentacene

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRAPPING; MEMORY EFFECTS; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; ORGANIC THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS; PENTACENE;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRON TRAPS; ELECTROSTATICS; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33751397483     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.679661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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