High mobility short-channel p-type organic transistors with reduced gold content and completely gold-free source/drain bottom contacts

Organic Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1227-1235

  Muller R ^a   Smout, S ^a   Rolin, C ^a   Genoe, J ^a   Heremans, P ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Bottom contact; Low cost; Palladium; Pentacene; Short channel transistor

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; COSTS; GOLD; PALLADIUM; PRECIOUS METALS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

BOTTOM CONTACTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; LOW COSTS; ORGANIC TRANSISTOR; PENTACENE TRANSISTORS; PENTACENES; SATURATION MOBILITY; SHORT CHANNEL TRANSISTORS;

TRANSISTORS;

EID: 79955514011     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2011.03.033     Document Type: Article

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