Nonlinear transport in semiconducting polymers at high carrier densities

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 572-575

  Yuen, Jonathan D ^a   Menon, Reghu ^a,b   Coates, Nelson E ^a   Namdas, Ebinazar B ^a   Cho, Shinuk ^a   Hannahs, Scott T ^c   Moses, Daniel ^a   Heeger, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS; FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR (FETS); LARGE-AREA ELECTRONICS; LUTTINGER LIQUIDS; NONLINEAR TRANSPORT; SEMICONDUCTOR LAYERS; SOURCE-DRAIN VOLTAGE; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; TRANSPORT MOBILITY;

SEMICONDUCTING POLYMERS;

EID: 67649494296     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2470     Document Type: Article

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