Ink-Jet Printing of Downscaled Organic Electronic Devices

Organic Electronics II: More Materials and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 281-326

  Caironi, Mario ^a   Gili, Enrico ^b   Sirringhaus, Henning ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1002/9783527640218.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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