Two-dimensional quasi-freestanding molecular crystals for high-performance organic field-effect transistors

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  He, Daowei ^a   Zhang, Yuhan ^a   Wu, Qisheng ^b   Xu, Rui ^c   Nan, Haiyan ^b   Liu, Junfang ^c   Yao, Jianjun ^d   Wang, Zilu ^b   Yuan, Shijun ^b   Li, Yun ^a   Shi, Yi ^a   Wang, Jinlan ^b   Ni, Zhenhua ^b   He, Lin ^c   Miao, Feng ^a   Song, Fengqi ^a   Xu, Hangxun ^e   Watanabe, K ^f   Taniguchi, T ^f   Xu, Jian Bin ^g   Wang, Xinran ^a   more..

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d United States   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^g CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOTHIOPHENE DERIVATIVE; BORON DERIVATIVE; BORON NITRIDE; DIOCTYLBENZOTHIENOBENZOTHIOPHENE; GRAPHENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTAL; LOW TEMPERATURE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL METHOD; SUBSTRATE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; HYSTERESIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOOXIDATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; THICKNESS;

EID: 84918812212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6162     Document Type: Article

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