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Lowering the barrier to organic tunnel transistors

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Organic thin-film tunnel transistors with subthreshold swings as low as 24.2 mV dec−1 can be created with the help of a molecular decoupling layer that lowers the energy barrier to tunnelling.

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Fig. 1: Organic thin-film tunnel transistors based on a molecular decoupling layer.

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