Large-area flexible ultrasonic imaging system with an organic transistor active matrix

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 995-1002

  Kato, Yusaku ^a   Sekitani, Tsuyoshi ^b   Noguchi, Yoshiaki ^b   Yokota, Tomoyuki ^b   Takamiya, Makoto ^c   Sakurai, Takayasu ^c   Someya, Takao ^b  

^a SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Large area sensor; Organic transistor; Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF); Ultrasonic wave

Indexed keywords

AC SIGNALS; ACTIVE MATRIXES; CARRIER FREQUENCY; EFFECTIVE SIZE; FREE SPACE; LARGE AREA SENSORS; ON/OFF RATIO; OPERATION VOLTAGE; ORGANIC TRANSISTOR; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE (PVDF); POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDES; SATURATION REGIME; SOURCE AND DRAIN ELECTRODES; TARGET OBJECT; TRANSDUCER ARRAY; ULTRASONIC CELLS; ULTRASONIC SENSING;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SENSORS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC WAVES; ULTRASONICS;

ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 77951621842     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2010.2044278     Document Type: Article

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