Effect of surface wettability properties on the electrical properties of printed carbon nanotube thin-film transistors on SiO2/Si substrates

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 9997-10004

  Liu, Zhen ^a,b   Zhao, Jianwen ^a   Xu, Wenya ^a   Qian, Long ^a   Nie, Shuhong ^a   Cui, Zheng ^a  

^a SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

^b DALIAN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

electrical properties; printed thin film transistors; single walled carbon nanotube; sorted; uniformity; wettability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; HYDROGEN BONDS; OXYGEN; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PRINTING; SCALABILITY; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; WETTING;

HYDROXYL GROUPS; OPERATION VOLTAGE; OXYGEN PLASMA TREATMENTS; SCALABLE METHODS; SORTED; SURFACE WETTABILITY; THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR (TFTS); UNIFORMITY;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84904122566     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am502168x     Document Type: Article

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