Solvent vapor annealing in the molecular regime drastically improves carrier transport in small-molecule thin-film transistors

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2325-2330

  Ullah Khan, Hadayat ^a   Li, Ruipeng ^a   Ren, Yi ^a   Chen, Long ^a   Payne, Marcia M ^c   Bhansali, Unnat S ^a   Smilgies, Detlef M ^b   Anthony, John E ^c   Amassian, Aram ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

organic electronics; organic thin film transistors; quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation; solution processing; solvent vapor annealing; TIPS pentacene

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE WITH DISSIPATION; SOLUTION-PROCESSING; SOLVENT-VAPOR ANNEALING; TIPS-PENTACENE;

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; MOLECULES; PROCESS MONITORING; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOLVENTS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; THIN FILMS;

VAPORS;

GAS; NAPHTHACENE DERIVATIVE; PENTACENE; SOLVENT;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CHEMISTRY; GAS; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE; SEMICONDUCTOR; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

GASES; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NAPHTHACENES; QUARTZ CRYSTAL MICROBALANCE TECHNIQUES; SEMICONDUCTORS; SOLVENTS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84876150109     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am3025195     Document Type: Article

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