Citation: Yaorong Su, Weiguang Xie, Jianbin Xu. Towards low-voltage organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) with solution-processed high-k dielectric and interface engineering[J]. AIMS Materials Science, 2015, 2(4): 510-529. doi: 10.3934/matersci.2015.4.510
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