Visualizing and quantifying charge distributions correlated to threshold voltage shifts in lateral organic transistors

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2714-2724

  Dawidczyk, Thomas J ^a   Martínez Hardigree, Josué F ^a   Johns, Gary L ^b   Ozgun, Recep ^a   Alley, Olivia ^a   Andreou, Andreas G ^a   Markovic, Nina ^b   Katz, Howard E ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

organic field effect transistor; pentacene; polystyrene; scanning Kelvin probe microscopy; static charge; surface voltage; threshold voltage

Indexed keywords

CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; ESTERS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SURFACES; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

ORGANIC FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR (OFETS); PENTACENES; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); SCANNING KELVIN PROBE MICROSCOPY; STATIC CHARGE; SURFACE VOLTAGES; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE SHIFTS; TRANSISTOR OPERATION;

BIAS VOLTAGE;

EID: 84896982243     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn4064067     Document Type: Article

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