Ordered polymer nanofibers enhance output brightness in bilayer light-emitting field-effect transistors

ACS Nano

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2344-2351

  Hsu, Ben B Y ^a   Seifter, Jason ^a   Takacs, Christopher J ^a   Zhong, Chengmei ^d   Tseng, Hsin Rong ^a   Samuel, Ifor D W ^b   Namdas, Ebinazar B ^c   Bazan, Guillermo C ^a   Huang, Fei ^d   Cao, Yong ^d   Heeger, Alan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

bilayer; light emitting field effect transistor; ordering; organic semiconductors; oriented polymer

Indexed keywords

BI-LAYER; DEVICE PERFORMANCE; INJECTION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; ORDERING; ORIENTED POLYMERS; POLYMER MORPHOLOGY; RECOMBINATION ZONES;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LIGHT EMISSION; NANOFIBERS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 84875653834     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn305566u     Document Type: Article

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