Simple push coating of polymer thin-film transistors

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ikawa, Mitsuhiro ^a   Yamada, Toshikazu ^a   Matsui, Hiroyuki ^a   Minemawari, Hiromi ^a   Tsutsumi, Jun'Ya ^a   Horii, Yoshinori ^a   Chikamatsu, Masayuki ^a   Azumi, Reiko ^a   Kumai, Reiji ^b   Hasegawa, Tatsuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS STRUCTURE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETICONE; POLYMER; SOLVENT;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLINITY; FILM; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYMER; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; FILM COATING; HYDROPHOBICITY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 84869395921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2190     Document Type: Article

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