Natural Alkaloids (Caffeine, Theobromine and Theophylline) as Dielectric Capping Layers for Gold and Aluminum Gate Electrodes in Low Operating Voltage Organic Field-Effect Transistors

Cristian Vlad Irimia; Cigdem Yumusak; Boyuan Ban; Elisabeth Leeb; Felix Mayr; Corina Schimanofsky; Andrei Ionut Mardare; Maximilian Alexander Molnar; Christian Teichert; Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci; Mihai Irimia-Vladu

doi:10.1109/JFLEX.2025.3539612

Natural Alkaloids (Caffeine, Theobromine and Theophylline) as Dielectric Capping Layers for Gold and Aluminum Gate Electrodes in Low Operating Voltage Organic Field-Effect Transistors

Cristian Vlad Irimia
, Cigdem Yumusak
, Boyuan Ban
, Elisabeth Leeb
, Felix Mayr
, Corina Schimanofsky
, Andrei Ionut Mardare
, Maximilian Alexander Molnar
, Christian Teichert
, Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci
, Mihai Irimia-Vladu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	165-187
Number of pages	23
Journal	IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics
Volume	4
Issue number	5
Early online date	2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JFLEX.2025.3539612
Publication status	Published - 2025

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103040 Photonics
104005 Electrochemistry
210005 Nanophotonics
103011 Semiconductor physics
104017 Physical chemistry
104 Chemistry
104016 Photochemistry
103016 Laser physics
104006 Solid state chemistry
210006 Nanotechnology
205016 Materials testing
204001 Inorganic chemical technology
211104 Metallurgy
104014 Surface chemistry
105116 Mineralogy
204 Chemical Process Engineering
105113 Crystallography
503013 Subject didactics of natural sciences

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Sustainable Development: Responsible Technologies and Management
Digital Transformation

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Irimia, C. V., Yumusak, C., Ban, B., Leeb, E., Mayr, F., Schimanofsky, C., Mardare, A. I., Molnar, M. A., Teichert, C., Sariciftci, N. S., & Irimia-Vladu, M. (2025). Natural Alkaloids (Caffeine, Theobromine and Theophylline) as Dielectric Capping Layers for Gold and Aluminum Gate Electrodes in Low Operating Voltage Organic Field-Effect Transistors. IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics, 4(5), 165-187. https://doi.org/10.1109/JFLEX.2025.3539612

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Natural Alkaloids (Caffeine, Theobromine and Theophylline) as Dielectric Capping Layers for Gold and Aluminum Gate Electrodes in Low Operating Voltage Organic Field-Effect Transistors. / Irimia, Cristian Vlad; Yumusak, Cigdem; Ban, Boyuan et al.
In: IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics, Vol. 4, No. 5, 2025, p. 165-187.

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