Fully solution-processed flexible organic thin film transistor arrays with high mobility and exceptional uniformity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Fukuda, Kenjiro ^a   Takeda, Yasunori ^a   Mizukami, Makoto ^a   Kumaki, Daisuke ^a   Tokito, Shizuo ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 84893839191     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03947     Document Type: Article

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