Improving charge injection in high-mobility rubrene crystals: From contact-limited to channel-dominated transistors

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 16, 2014, Pages

  Zimmerling, Tino ^a   Batlogg, Bertram ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; CONTACT RESISTANCE; GOLD; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

APPARENT MOBILITY; CONTAMINATION LAYERS; DIODE PARAMETERS; ELECTROSTATIC COUPLING; METAL ELECTRODES; ORGANIC FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTOR (OFETS); SCHOTTKY CONTACTS; TRANSISTOR OPERATION;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 84900030487     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4873635     Document Type: Article

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