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Organic Devices for Electrophysiological Applications

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Organic Transistor Devices for In Vitro Electrophysiological Applications

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It is hard to think about something, in the recent past, that affected our lives more than field effect transistors and plastic materials. Interest in field effect transistors, since their invention in 1947 by John Bardeen and Walter Brattain (Phys Rev, 74:230, 1948, [1]), has grown exponentially and revolutionized almost every aspect of human reality, from medicine, to biotechnology and industry, changing the way in which, for example, we communicate with each other, and display or store information. For the discovery of the transistor effect, Bardeen and Brattain were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 (together with William Shockley).

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Spanu, A. (2016). Organic Devices for Electrophysiological Applications. In: Organic Transistor Devices for In Vitro Electrophysiological Applications. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28880-2_3

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