Stability of ionic liquid-gated metal oxides and transistors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1561-1566

  Bubel, Simon ^a   Meyer, Sebastian ^b   Chabinyc, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degradation; electrolyte; electronic double layer; gold leaching; imidazolium; ion gel; ionic liquid (IL); stains; tetracyanoborate (TCB); turbidity; zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ELECTROLYTES; GOLD; LEAD OXIDE; TURBIDITY; ZINC OXIDE;

DOUBLE LAYERS; GOLD LEACHING; IMIDAZOLIUM; ION GELS; STAINS; TETRACYANOBORATE (TCB);

IONIC LIQUIDS;

EID: 84899959913     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2014.2308141     Document Type: Article

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