ITO-Free Organic Light-Emitting Transistors with Graphene Gate Electrode

ACS Photonics

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1082-1088

  Soldano, Caterina ^a   Stefani, Andrea ^a   Biondo, Viviana ^a   Basiricoì, Laura ^b   Turatti, Guido ^a   Generali, Gianluca ^a   Ortolani, Luca ^c   Morandi, Vittorio ^c   Veronese, Giulio Paolo ^c   Rizzoli, Rita ^c   Capelli, Raffaella ^b,d   Muccini, Michele ^a,b  

^a Mediteknology srl   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d IOM CNR LABORATORIO TASC   (Italy)

Author keywords

few layer graphene; flexible electronics; graphene; ITO free electronics; organic electronics; organic light emitting transistors (OLETs); transparent conductive electrodes

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; PHOTOTRANSISTORS; TIN OXIDES;

FEW-LAYER GRAPHENE; ITO FREE; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING TRANSISTOR; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE ELECTRODES;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84925989601     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23304022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ph500289s     Document Type: Article

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