Small-subthreshold-swing and low-voltage flexible organic thin-film transistors which use HfLaO as the gate dielectric

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-135

  Chang, M F ^a   Lee, P T ^a   McAlister, S P ^b   Chin, Albert ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c Nano Electronics Consortium of Taiwan   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flexible; HfLaO; High ; Organic thin film transistors (OTFTs); Pentacene

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL SENSORS; GATE DIELECTRICS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); POLYIMIDES; POLYMERS; THIN FILM DEVICES; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; TRANSISTORS;

FIELD-EFFECT MOBILITIES; FLEXIBLE; FLEXIBLE POLYIMIDE SUBSTRATES; HFLAO; LOW VOLTAGES; LOW-POWER APPLICATIONS; OPERATING VOLTAGES; ORGANIC THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS (OTFTS); PENTACENE; SUB THRESHOLDS; SUB-THRESHOLD SWINGS;

SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 59649122398     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2008.2010416     Document Type: Article

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