Polymer-sorted semiconducting carbon nanotube networks for high-performance ambipolar field-effect transistors

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 682-689

  Schießl, Stefan P ^a   Fröhlich, Nils ^b   Held, Martin ^a   Gannott, Florentina ^a   Schweiger, Manuel ^a   Forster, Michael ^b   Scherf, Ullrich ^b   Zaumseil, Jana ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ambipolar field effect transistor; inverter; polymer wrapping; selective dispersion; semiconducting single walled carbon nanotubes

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; CONTACT RESISTANCE; DISPERSIONS; OHMIC CONTACTS; POLYMERS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); TRANSISTORS; YARN;

AMBIPOLAR FIELD; ASYMMETRIC SIDE CHAIN; INVERTER; POLYFLUORENE DERIVATIVE; POLYMER WRAPPING; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE (SWNTS); STEEP SUBTHRESHOLD SWINGS;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84921305170     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/am506971b     Document Type: Article

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