Highly stable hysteresis-free carbon nanotube thin-film transistors by fluorocarbon polymer encapsulation

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8441-8446

  Ha, Tae Jun ^a,b   Kiriya, Daisuke ^a,b   Chen, Kevin ^a,b   Javey, Ali ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; electronics; hydrophobic; passivation; stability

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENCAPSULATION; FLUOROCARBONS; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYSTERESIS; PASSIVATION; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

DEVICE RELIABILITY; ENCAPSULATION LAYER; FLUOROCARBON POLYMERS; HIGHLY STABLES; HYDROPHOBIC; OPERATION STABILITY; THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR (TFTS); WATER MOLECULE;

CARBON NANOTUBES;

EID: 84902477535     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am5013326     Document Type: Article

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