Long-term operations of polymeric thin-film transistors: Electricfield-induced intrachain order and charge transport enhancements of conjugated poly(3-hexylthiophene)

Macromolecules

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 8251-8259

  Cheng, Horng Long ^a   Lin, Jr Wei ^a   Jang, Ming Feng ^a   Wu, Fu Chiao ^a   Chou, Wei Yang ^a   Chang, Ming Hua ^a   Chao, Ching Hsun ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MingDau University   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CHANNELS; AMORPHOUS FRACTION; CHARGE TRANSPORT; CHARGE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; CONFORMATION TRANSITIONS; EFFECTIVE CONJUGATION LENGTH; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; ELECTRONIC COUPLING; EXCITON BANDWIDTH; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; EXTERNAL SOURCES; GATE FIELD; LONG-TERM OPERATION; MICRO RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MODEL-DRIVEN; POLARIZED ABSORPTION; POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); RAMAN SPECTRA; REGIO-REGULAR; RR-P3HT; THEORETICAL STUDY; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

ABSORPTION; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; AMORPHOUS FILMS; CARRIER MOBILITY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; POLYMERS; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449435906     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma901419y     Document Type: Article

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