Generalized enhancement of charge injection in bottom contact/top gate polymer field-effect transistors with single-walled carbon nanotubes

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 809-817

  Wang, Ming ^a   Jakubka, Florian ^a   Gannott, Florentina ^a   Schweiger, Manuel ^a   Zaumseil, Jana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambipolar; Charge injection; Contact resistance; Field effect transistors; Polymer; Single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; CHARGE INJECTION; CONJUGATED POLYMERS; CONTACT RESISTANCE; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; NAPHTHALENE; OHMIC CONTACTS; POLYMERS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SOLVENTS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSISTORS; YARN;

AMBIPOLAR; AMBIPOLAR CHARGE TRANSPORTS; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; DIKETOPYRROLOPYRROLES; HIGH PERFORMANCE POLYMER; POLYMER FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; POLYMER SEMICONDUCTORS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS);

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84893770060     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.01.013     Document Type: Article

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