Macroscopic and high-throughput printing of aligned nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bucella, Sadir G ^a,b   Luzio, Alessandro ^a   Gann, Eliot ^c,d   Thomsen, Lars ^d   McNeill, Christopher R ^c   Pace, Giuseppina ^a   Perinot, Andrea ^a,b   Chen, Zhihua ^e   Facchetti, Antonio ^e   Caironi, Mario ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

^e POLYERA CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOFILM; POLYMER;

CRYSTALLINITY; ELECTRICAL PROPERTY; MANUFACTURING; MONITORING; POLYMER; SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONICS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRINTING; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84942683821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9394     Document Type: Article

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