High-speed mechanically flexible single-crystal silicon thin-film transistors on plastic substrates

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 460-462

  Ahn, Jong Hyun ^a   Kim, Hoon Sik ^a   Lee, Keon Jae ^a   Zhu, Zhengtao ^a   Menard, Etienne ^a   Nuzzo, Ralph G ^a   Rogers, John A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible circuits; Printed transistors; Silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer; Thin film transistor (TFT)

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON ON INSULATOR TECHNOLOGY; SILICON WAFERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SUBSTRATES;

FLEXIBLE TRANSISTORS; PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; PRINTED TRANSISTORS; ULTRATHIN SINGLE-CRYSTAL SILICON RIBBONS;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33744758663     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2006.874764     Document Type: Article

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