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Slow on, fast off

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The slow turn-on speed in accumulation-mode organic electrochemical transistors is explained by asymmetric ion transport in switching kinetics.

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Fig. 1: Schematic representation of the transient electrical and optical response, and the experimental setup.

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Yu, H., Nelson, J. Slow on, fast off. Nat. Mater. 23, 585–586 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-024-01885-1

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