High-Performance Organic Vertical Thin Film Transistor Using Graphene as a Tunable Contact

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 11102-11108

  Liu, Yuan ^a   Zhou, Hailong ^a   Weiss, Nathan O ^a   Huang, Yu ^a,b   Duan, Xiangfeng ^a,b  

^a Department of Materials Science and Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

air stable; barrier modulation; cutoff frequency; graphene contact; high current density; macroelectronics; OTFT

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FILM THICKNESS; GRAPHENE; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; THIN FILMS; TRANSISTORS;

AIR STABLE; GRAPHENE CONTACTS; HIGH CURRENT DENSITIES; MACROELECTRONICS; OTFT;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84948403621     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04612     Document Type: Article

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