How small the contacts could be optimal for nanoscale organic transistors?

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1797-1804

  Xu, Yong ^a   Liu, Chuan ^a   Scheideler, William ^b   Darmawan, Peter ^a   Li, Songlin ^a   Balestra, Francis ^c   Ghibaudo, Gerard ^c   Tsukagoshi, Kazuhito ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b USA   (United States)

^c IMEP LAHC   (France)

Author keywords

Charge injection; Charge transport; Contact length; Contact resistance; Organic transistors

Indexed keywords

CARRIER TRANSPORT; CHARGE INJECTION; CHARGE TRANSFER; CONTACT RESISTANCE;

ACCESS RESISTANCE; CONTACT LENGTH; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS; ORGANIC TRANSISTOR; RELIABLE STUDIES; SEMICONDUCTOR FILMS; VARIABLE CARRIERS;

TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84877276880     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.04.014     Document Type: Article

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