Nanoimprinted complementary organic electronics: Single transistors and inverters

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 2470-2478

  Rothländer, Thomas ^a   Palfinger, Ursula ^a   Stadlober, Barbara ^a   Haase, Anja ^a   Gold, Herbert ^a   Palfinger, Christian ^a   Kraxner, Johanna ^a   Jakopic, Georg ^a   Hartmann, Paul ^a   Domann, Gerhard ^a,b  

^a Institute of Surface Technologies and Photonics   (Austria)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SILICATE RESEARCH ISC   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electronic structure; Nanostructure; Organic

Indexed keywords

NANOCOMPOSITE DIELECTRICS; OPERATION VOLTAGE; ORGANIC; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC INVERTERS; ORGANIC TRANSISTOR; SINGLE TRANSISTORS; TRANSISTOR CHANNELS;

BUTENES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOIMPRINT LITHOGRAPHY;

EID: 84871377104     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2011.282     Document Type: Article

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