Displacement Current Measurement for Exploring Charge Carrier Dynamics in Organic Semiconductor Devices

Physics of Organic Semiconductors: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 119-154

  Noguchi, Yutaka ^a   Tanaka, Yuya ^a   Miyazaki, Yukimasa ^a   Sato, Naoki ^a   Nakayama, Yasuo ^a   Ishii, Hisao ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charge carrier behavior; Energy gap; Interface dipole; OFET; OLED; Organic semiconductor; Sweep rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878358642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527654949.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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