Amorphous silicon display backplanes on plastic substrates

IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 364-370

  Striakhilev, Denis ^a   Nathan, Arokia ^a,b   Vygranenko, Yuri ^a   Servati, Peyman ^c   Lee, Czang Ho ^a,d   Sazonov, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flat panel displays; Organic light emitting diode displays (OLEDs); Thin film transistors (TFTs)

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; COSTS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

ACTIVE-MATRIX ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAYS (AMOLED); BACKPLANES; MULTI-TRANSISTOR PIXEL CIRCUITS; PLASTIC SUBSTRATES;

FLAT PANEL DISPLAYS;

EID: 33845670837     PISSN: 1551319X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JDT.2006.885153     Document Type: Article

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