Roll-to-roll manufacturing of thin film electronics

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4688, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 240-248

  Sheats, James R ^a  

^a Rolltronics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; ELECTRON DEVICE MANUFACTURE; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; SUBSTRATES;

GLASS SUBSTRATES;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0036380154     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.472297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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