Achievement

IGERT faculty member A. Dodabalapur led an interdisciplinary team, including IGERT trainee Shannon Lewis and collaborator Professor Dutta of Purdue University, whose research activities led to the development of a hybrid organic/inorganic ambipolar thin film transistor as chemical sensor. The device consists of pentacene and zinc oxide as semiconductors. They have investigated the current-voltage characteristics in different operational modes and have employed this device as chemical sensor. The research result was published in Applied Physics Letter 98, 213504 (2011).