Printed, sub-3V digital circuits on plastic from aqueous carbon nanotube inks

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4388-4395

  Ha, Mingjing ^a   Xia, Yu ^a   Green, Alexander A ^b   Zhang, Wei ^a   Renn, Mike J ^c   Kim, Chris H ^a   Hersam, Mark C ^b   Frisbie, C Daniel ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c OPTOMEC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambipolar; Carbon nanotube; Delay time; Flexible electronics; Ion gel; Printed electronics; Thin film transistor

Indexed keywords

AMBIPOLAR; AMBIPOLAR TRANSPORT; CHANNEL LENGTH; DELAY TIME; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; FUNCTIONAL LIQUID; HIGH SUPPLY VOLTAGES; HIGH-MOBILITY SEMICONDUCTORS; ION GEL; ION GELS; JET PRINTING; LARGE AREA SENSORS; LIQUID INKS; NAND GATE; PLASTIC FOILS; PRINTED CIRCUITRY; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; RING OSCILLATOR; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; STAGE RING OSCILLATORS; SUPPLY VOLTAGES;

CAPACITANCE; CARBON NANOTUBES; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FLEXIBLE DISPLAYS; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; GATE DIELECTRICS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); GELS; INK; IONS; LIQUIDS; MOS DEVICES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POLYIMIDES; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SILICON COMPOUNDS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

INK JET PRINTING;

EID: 78549240699     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn100966s     Document Type: Article

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