Tuning the threshold voltage in electrolyte-gated organic field-effect transistors

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 8394-8399

  Kergoat, Loïg ^a   Herlogsson, Lars ^b   Piro, Benoit ^c   Pham, Minh Chau ^c   Horowitz, Gilles ^d   Crispin, Xavier ^a   Berggren, Magnus ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Thin Film Electronics AB   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES INTERFACES ET DES COUCHES MINCES   (France)

Author keywords

Gate electrode material; Organic electronics; Polyelectrolytes; Thin film transistors

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROLYTES; METALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 84861882404     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120311109     Document Type: Article

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