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Similarly, understanding how interactions with the environment affect the operation of polymer TFTs is still in its infancy. Environmental stability seems, however, to be a solvable problem if appropriate care is taken during fabrication and if appropriate encapsulation layers are developed. 

The authors gratefully acknowledge W.S. Wong, A.C. Arias, R.B. Apte, S.E. Ready, A.R. Volkel, R. Lujan, F. Endicott, J.-P. Lu and R.A. Street of PARC for assistance with the experiments and for helpful discussions. This work is partially supported by the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (contract 70NANB0H3033). 

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