Fully deformable organic thin-film transistors with moderate operation voltage

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3416-3421

  Cosseddu, Piero ^a,b   Piras, Andrea ^a,b   Bonfiglio, Annalisa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flexible devices; organic electronics; organic semiconductor (OSC) thin film transistors (TFTs)

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY INVERTERS; ELECTRICAL BEHAVIORS; FLEXIBLE DEVICE; FREESTANDING FILMS; MECHANICAL DEFORMATION; MECHANICALLY STABLE; OPERATING VOLTAGE; OPERATION VOLTAGE; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; PARYLENE C; SCALING DOWN; SIMPLE APPROACH;

DEFORMATION; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; GATE DIELECTRICS; TRANSISTORS;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 80053181507     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2011.2161763     Document Type: Article

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