Growth of rubrene crystalline thin films using thermal annealing on DPPC LB monolayer

Organic Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2534-2539

  Du, Chuan ^a   Wang, Wenchong ^a   Li, Liqiang ^a   Fuchs, Harald ^a   Chi, Lifeng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

High quality crystalline film; Langmuir Blodgett monolayer; Organic thin film transistors (OTFTs); Rubrene; Thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GATE DIELECTRICS; LANGMUIR BLODGETT FILMS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MONOLAYERS; SILICA; THIN FILM CIRCUITS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

CRYSTALLINE FILMS; LANGMUIR-BLODGETT MONOLAYERS; ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTOR (OTFTS); RUBRENES; THERMAL-ANNEALING;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 84885456866     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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