Swelling of polymer dielectric thin films for organic-transistor-based aqueous sensing applications

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 5018-5022

  Verploegen, Eric ^a,b   Sokolov, Anatoliy N ^b   Akgun, Bulent ^c   Satija, Sushil K ^c   Wei, Peng ^b   Kim, Daniel ^b   Kapelewski, Matthew T ^b   Bao, Zhenan ^b   Toney, Michael F ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

dielectrics; organic field effect transistors; polymeric materials; thin films

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DETECTION; CHEMICAL SENSORS; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC FILMS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; POLYMERS; THIN FILMS;

AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT; CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICALS; ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTOR (OTFTS); POLY(4-VINYLPHENOL); POLYMER DIELECTRICS; SEMICONDUCTING THIN FILMS; SENSING APPLICATIONS; UNDERWATER OPERATIONS;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84896497724     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/cm4032013     Document Type: Article

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