Direct inkjet printing of silver electrodes on organic semiconductors for thin-film transistors with top contact geometry

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Noguchi, Yoshiaki ^a   Sekitani, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yokota, Tomoyuki ^a   Someya, Takao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIZERS; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; ELECTRODES; FLUID MECHANICS; METALLIZING; NOZZLES; OPTICAL DESIGN; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; PRINTING; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; TRANSISTORS;

AG NANO-PARTICLES; CONTACT GEOMETRY; DC CHARACTERISTICS; INK DROPLETS; INK-JET PRINTING; OFF CURRENT; ORGANIC THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS; PENTACENE FILMS; SILVER ELECTRODES; SOURCE AND DRAIN ELECTRODES; WAVE FORMS;

SILVER;

EID: 49149094362     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2959728     Document Type: Article

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