Zinc oxide nanostructures and high electron mobility nanocomposite thin film transistors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3001-3011

  Li, Flora M ^a   Hsieh, Gen Wen ^a   Dalal, Sharvari ^a   Newton, Marcus C ^b   Stott, James E ^b   Hiralal, Pritesh ^a   Nathan, Arokia ^b   Warburton, Paul A ^b   Unalan, Husnu ^a   Beecher, Paul ^a   Flewitt, Andrew J ^a   Robinson, Ian ^b   Amaratunga, Gehan ^a   Milne, William I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High electron mobility; Nanocomposite thin film transistors (TFTs); Nanowires (NWs); Organic semiconductors; Tetrapods; Zinc Oxide (ZnO)

Indexed keywords

ABS RESINS; CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRON MOBILITY; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; NANOCOMPOSITES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; THICK FILMS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; TRANSISTORS; ZINC; ZINC ALLOYS; ZINC OXIDE;

BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTERS; ELECTRON FIELDS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITIES; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY; MEASUREMENT RESULTS; NANOCOMPOSITE THIN FILMS; ON/OFF CURRENT RATIOS; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS; ORGANIC TFTS; OXIDE NANOSTRUCTURES; PROCESSABLE; SYNTHESIS OF; TETRAPODS; VAPOR PHASE DEPOSITIONS; ZNO NANORODS; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 56649106587     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2008.2005180     Document Type: Article

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