Patterning organic single-crystal transistor arrays

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7121, 2006, Pages 913-917

  Briseno, Alejandro L ^a,b   Mannsfeld, Stefan C B ^a   Ling, Mang M ^a   Liu, Shuhong ^a   Tseng, Ricky J ^b   Reese, Colin ^a   Roberts, Mark E ^a   Yang, Yang ^b   Wudl, Fred ^b   Bao, Zhenan ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; SILANE DERIVATIVE; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARRAY; CRYSTAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 33845884292     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05427     Document Type: Article

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