Fully-printed high-performance organic thin-film transistors and circuitry on one-micron-thick polymer films

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Fukuda, Kenjiro ^a   Takeda, Yasunori ^a   Yoshimura, Yudai ^a   Shiwaku, Rei ^a   Tran, Lam Truc ^a   Sekine, Tomohito ^a   Mizukami, Makoto ^a   Kumaki, Daisuke ^a   Tokito, Shizuo ^a  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MANUFACTURING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMER;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; FILM; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; PHOTOGRAPHY; RANGE OF MOTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; THIN FILM TRANSISTOR; VELOCITY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84903138180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5147     Document Type: Article

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