Surface Decoration on Polymeric Gate Dielectrics for Flexible Organic Field-Effect Transistors via Hydroxylation and Subsequent Monolayer Self-Assembly

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 42, 2015, Pages 23464-23471

  Yan, Yan ^a   Huang, Long Biao ^a   Zhou, Ye ^b   Han, Su Ting ^a   Zhou, Li ^a   Sun, Qijun ^a   Zhuang, Jiaqing ^a   Peng, Haiyan ^a,c   Yan, He ^d   Roy, V A L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

ambipolar; field effect transistors; hydroxylation; SAMs; solution process

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; BONDING; CARRIER MOBILITY; CHEMICAL BONDS; CHEMICAL STABILITY; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; GATE DIELECTRICS; HYDROXYLATION; MONOLAYERS; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; POLYMER FILMS; POLYMERS; SELF ASSEMBLED MONOLAYERS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLVENTS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSISTORS;

AMBIPOLAR; CONFINED PHOTO-CATALYTIC OXIDATIONS; ENHANCED CARRIER MOBILITY; LOW- TEMPERATURE PROCESS; POLYMER SEMICONDUCTORS; POLYMERIC DIELECTRICS; SAMS; SOLUTION PROCESS;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84946037883     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05363     Document Type: Article

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