Influence of interface roughness on the performance of nanoparticulate zinc oxide field-effect transistors

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Okamura, Koshi ^a   Mechau, Norman ^a   Nikolova, Donna ^a   Hahn, Horst ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; MESFET DEVICES; OXIDES; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; TRANSISTORS; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

ENHANCEMENT MODE; FIELD-EFFECT MOBILITIES; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 51349139857     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2972121     Document Type: Article

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