Flexible and low-voltage integrated circuits constructed from high-performance nanocrystal transistors

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kim, David K ^a   Lai, Yuming ^a   Diroll, Benjamin T ^b   Murray, Christopher B ^a,b   Kagan, Cherie R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTAL; PLASTIC;

COLLOID; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COLLOID; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONICS; NANOFABRICATION; OSCILLATOR; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84870818274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2218     Document Type: Article

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