Printable ion-gel gate dielectrics for low-voltage polymer thin-film transistors on plastic

Nature Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 900-906

  Cho, Jeong Ho ^a   Lee, Jiyoul ^a   Xia, Yu ^a   Kim, Bongsoo ^a   He, Yiyong ^a   Renn, Michael J ^b   Lodge, Timothy P ^a   Daniel Frisbie, C ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b OPTOMEC INC   (United States)

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EID: 84988044894     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2291     Document Type: Article

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