Thin-film tunneling transistors on flexible plastic substrates based on stress-assisted lateral growth of polycrystalline germanium

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1054-1056

  Hekmatshoar, Bahman ^a   Mohajerzadeh, Shams ^a   Shahrjerdi, Davood ^a   Robertson, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON TUNNELING; ETCHING; FILM GROWTH; GERMANIUM; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; PLASTICS; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; RAPID THERMAL ANNEALING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

COMPRESSIVE STRESSES; FLEXIBLE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY; THIN-FILM TUNNELLING TRANSISTORS; TUNNELLING TRANSISTORS;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 4344691148     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1779946     Document Type: Article

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