Tunable Fröhlich polarons in organic single-crystal transistors

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 982-986

  Hulea, I N ^a   Fratini, S ^b   Xie, H ^a   Mulder, C L ^a   Iossad, N N ^a   Rastelli, G ^b,c   Ciuchi, S ^c   Morpurgo, A F ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PERMITTIVITY; POLARONS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GATE INSULATORS; MICROSCOPIC PHYSICAL PROCESSES; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS (FET); POLARONIC COUPLING REGIME;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33751571254     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1774     Document Type: Article

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