Analysis of contact effects in inverted-staggered organic thin-film transistors based on anisotropic conduction

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 986-994

  Sohn, Chang Woo ^a   Rim, Tai Uk ^a   Choi, Gil Bok ^a   Jeong, Yoon Ha ^a,b  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b National Center for Nanomaterials Technology (NCNT)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anisotropic conduction; Characteristic length; Contact resistance; Organic thin film transistors (OTFTs); Space charge limited conduction (SCLC); Variable range hopping (VRH)

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC CONDUCTION; CHARACTERISTIC LENGTH; ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; SPACE-CHARGE-LIMITED; VARIABLE-RANGE HOPPING;

ANISOTROPY; CONTACT RESISTANCE; MAGNETIC FILMS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 77951621527     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2010.2044272     Document Type: Article

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