Degradation of all-inkjet-printed organic thin-film transistors with TIPS-pentacene under processes applied in textile manufacturing

This work was supported by FEDER through the COMPETE Program and by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) in the framework of the Strategic Project PEST C/FIS/UI607/2014 and the project PTDC/CTM-NAN/121038/2010. Enrico Sowade was financially supported by the European Commission within the Framework FP7-ICT (grant agreement number 287682, project acronym TDK4PE). The authors also thank for the support by the project Matepro – Optimizing Materials and Processes”, ref. NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000037”, co-funded by the “Programa Operacional Regional do Norte” (ON.2 – O Novo Norte), under the “Quadro de Referencia Estrategico Nacional” (QREN), through the “Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional” (FEDER). Helder Castro thanks for the support of the FCT under the grant SFRH/BDE/33350/2008.

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