Organic field-effect transistors applicable for gas and ion detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7779, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Klug, A ^a   Schmoltner, K ^a   List, E J W ^a,b  

^a NanoTecCenter   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Inkjet printing; OFET; Organic field effect transistor; Organic semiconductors; Plastic electronics; Sensors

Indexed keywords

ANALYTES; BIAS STRESS; CHANNEL CURRENTS; ION DETECTION; MOBILE IONS; OFET; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR; PLASTIC ELECTRONICS; POLY (3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE); PVA-BASED; SENSITIVE POLYMERS; SENSOR SYSTEMS; SOURCE/DRAIN ELECTRODES; TARGET APPLICATION; TOP-GATE; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

ARCHITECTURE; DRAIN CURRENT; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GATE DIELECTRICS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INK; INK JET PRINTERS; INK JET PRINTING; IONIC CONDUCTION; IONS; POLYVINYL ALCOHOLS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SENSORS;

ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 77958099624     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.861602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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