686 research outputs found
Towards a Classification of the Effects of Disorder on Materials Properties
Many 'interesting; correlated electron materials exhibit an unusual
sensitivity of measured properties to external perturbations, and in particular
to imperfections in the sample being measured. It is argued that in addition to
its inconvenience, this sensitivity may indicated potentially useful
properties. A partial classification of causes of such sensitivity is given.Comment: Solid State Communications, in press (Proceedings of the June 2002
Williamsburg conference on Muon Spin Rotation
Field Effect Transistors on Rubrene Single Crystals with Parylene Gate Insulator
We report on fabrication and characterization of the organic field effect
transistors (OFETs) on the surface of single crystals of rubrene. The parylene
polymer film has been used as the gate insulator. At room temperature, these
OFETs exhibit the p-type conductivity with the field effect mobility up to 1
cm^2/Vs and the on/off ratio ~ 10^4. The temperature dependence of the mobility
is discussed.Comment: 3 page
Organic Single-Crystal Field-Effect Transistors
We present an overview of recent studies of the charge transport in the field
effect transistors on the surface of single crystals of organic
low-molecular-weight materials. We first discuss in detail the technological
progress that has made these investigations possible. Particular attention is
devoted to the growth and characterization of single crystals of organic
materials and to different techniques that have been developed for device
fabrication. We then concentrate on the measurements of the electrical
characteristics. In most cases, these characteristics are highly reproducible
and demonstrate the quality of the single crystal transistors. Particularly
noticeable are the small sub-threshold slope, the non-monotonic temperature
dependence of the mobility, and its weak dependence on the gate voltage. In the
best rubrene transistors, room-temperature values of as high as 15
cm/Vs have been observed. This represents an order-of-magnitude increase
with respect to the highest mobility previously reported for organic thin film
transistors. In addition, the highest-quality single-crystal devices exhibit a
significant anisotropy of the conduction properties with respect to the
crystallographic direction. These observations indicate that the field effect
transistors fabricated on single crystals are suitable for the study of the
\textit{intrinsic} electronic properties of organic molecular semiconductors.
We conclude by indicating some directions in which near-future work should
focus to progress further in this rapidly evolving area of research.Comment: Review article, to appear in special issue of Phys. Stat. Sol. on
organic semiconductor
Beam waist measurement for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy experiments
International audienceClassical masking aperture methods are found to be mostly inaccurate to determine the terahertz beam size in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) experiments, owing to complex diffraction effects. Here, we present a simple and reliable method for measuring beam waists in terahertz TDS. It is based on the suecessive diffraction by an opaque disk followed by a small circular aperture. Cop. 2010 Optical Society of America
Extended fano model of extraordinary electromagnetic transmission through subwavelength hole arrays in the terahertz domain
International audienceWe developed an extended Fano model describing the Extraordinary Electromagnetic Transmission (EET) through arrays of subwavelength apertures, based on terahertz transmission measurements of arrays of various hole size and shapes. Considering a frequency-dependent coupling between resonant and non-resonant pathways, this model gives access to a simple analytical description of EET, provides good agreement with experimental data, and offers new parameters describing the influence of the hole size and shape on the transmitted signal. Cop. 2009 Optical Society of America
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