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Impact of the Capacitance of the Dielectric on the Contact Resistance of Organic Thin-Film Transistors

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Decoupling the Effects of Self-Assembled Monolayers on Gold, Silver, and Copper Organic Transistor Contacts

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Diphenyl Derivatives of Dinaphtho[2,3-b:2′,3′-f]thieno[3,2-b]thiophene: Organic Semiconductors for Thermally Stable Thin-Film Transistors

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Compact DC Modeling of Organic Field-Effect Transistors: Review and Perspectives

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Fermi Level Pinning by Gap States in Organic Semiconductors

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Charge Injection in Solution-Processed Organic Field-Effect Transistors: Physics, Models and Characterization Methods

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Simultaneous Modification of Bottom-Contact Electrode and Dielectric Surfaces for Organic Thin-Film Transistors Through Single-Component Spin-Cast Monolayers

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Organic Transistors in Optical Displays and Microelectronic Applications

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Molecular Semiconductors in Organic Photovoltaic Cells

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Energy-Level Alignment at Organic/Metal and Organic/Organic Interfaces

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Structural Analysis on Organic Thin-Film Transistor With Device Simulation

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Photoelectron spectroscopy study of systematically varied doping concentrations in an organic semiconductor layer using a molecular p-dopant

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Tuning the Effective Work Function of Gold and Silver Using ω-Functionalized Alkanethiols: Varying Surface Composition through Dilution and Choice of Terminal Groups

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Energetics of metal–organic interfaces: New experiments and assessment of the field

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An analysis of the difference in behavior of top and bottom contact organic thin film transistors using device simulation

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