High mobility polymer based on a π-extended benzodithiophene and its application for fast switching transistor and high gain photoconductor

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Park, Sungmin ^a,c   Lim, Byung Tack ^b   Kim, Bongsoo ^a   Son, Hae Jung ^a   Chung, Dae Sung ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b Chung Ang University   (South Korea)

^c Korea University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84903592019     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05482     Document Type: Article

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