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Short-Channel Organic Thin-Film Transistors

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Organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) are providing impetus in flexible, low-cost and large-area integrated circuit applications.

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    The Fermi energy is the energy at which the probability of occupation by an electron is exactly one-half.

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Zaki, T. (2015). Organic Thin-Film Transistors. In: Short-Channel Organic Thin-Film Transistors. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18896-6_3

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