Trap healing and ultralow-noise Hall effect at the surface of organic semiconductors

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1125-1129

  Lee, B ^a   Chen, Y ^a   Fu, D ^a   Yi, H T ^a   Czelen, K ^a   Najafov, H ^a   Podzorov, V ^a,b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES; HALL EFFECT MEASUREMENT; NON-CONJUGATED POLYMERS; ORGANIC MOLECULAR CRYSTAL; ORGANIC SINGLE CRYSTALS; SINGLE-CRYSTAL DEVICES; SURFACE FUNCTIONALIZATION; TRANSPORT PARAMETERS;

MOLECULAR CRYSTALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

HALL EFFECT;

EID: 84888199399     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3781     Document Type: Article

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