Organic thin-film transistor (OTFT)-based sensors

Electronics (Switzerland)

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 234-254

  Elkington, Daniel ^a   Cooling, Nathan ^a   Belcher, Warwick ^a   Dastoor, Paul C ^a   Zhou, Xiaojing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

OTFT; Review; Sensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918497199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/electronics3020234     Document Type: Review

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