Materials and applications for solution-processed organic field-effect transistors

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1570-1579

  Sirringhaus, Henning ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Plastic Logic Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flexible displays; Organic field effect transistors; Printing

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS; GATE DIELECTRICS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; PRINTING; SUBSTRATES; TEMPERATURE; TRANSISTORS;

AMORPHOUS SILICON TRANSISTORS; FIELD-EFFECT MOBILITIES; FLEXIBLE PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; GATE-DIELECTRIC INTERFACES; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; LOW TEMPERATURE SOLUTIONS; PERFORMANCE CAPABILITY; SOLUTION PROCESSED ORGANIC FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 69449096730     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2021680     Document Type: Review

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