Study of local mobility in pentacene field-effect transistors using spatially resolved photocurrent measurement

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 761-763

  Jia, Zhang ^a   Shi, Meng ^a   Kymissis, Ioannis ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous semiconductors; charge carrier mobility; field effect transistors (FETs); organic compounds; photoconductivity; thin film transistors

Indexed keywords

CARRIER DENSITY; FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS (FETS); LINEAR OPERATIONS; LOCAL MOBILITY; PENTACENES; PHOTOCURRENT MEASUREMENT; PHOTOGENERATED CHARGE; SATURATION REGION; SOURCE CONTACT; SPATIALLY RESOLVED; TRANSISTOR CHANNELS;

AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTORS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MESFET DEVICES; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

CARRIER MOBILITY;

EID: 77954144569     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2010.2049559     Document Type: Article

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