Interfaces in organic field-effect transistors

Advances in Polymer Science

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 113-153

  Horowitz, Gilles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

Author keywords

Charge transport; Contact resistance; Dielectric materials; Parameters extraction; Self assembled monolayers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955971479     PISSN: 00653195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/12-2009-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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