Submicron low-voltage organic transistors and circuits enabled by high-resolution silicon stencil masks

Technical Digest - International Electron Devices Meeting, IEDM

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ante, F ^a   Letzkus, F ^b   Butschke, J ^b   Zschieschang, U ^a   Kern, K ^a,c   Burghartz, J N ^b   Klauk, H ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Mikroelektronik Stuttgart   (Germany)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-STABLE; CHANNEL LENGTH; DRAIN OVERLAP; FABRICATION PROCESS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INPUT SIGNAL; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOW-VOLTAGE; N-CHANNEL; ON/OFF CURRENT RATIO; ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; ORGANIC TRANSISTOR; RING OSCILLATOR; SHORT-CHANNEL EFFECT; SIGNAL DELAYS; SOLVENT FREE; STATIC PERFORMANCE; STENCIL MASKS; SUBMICRON; SUBTHRESHOLD SWING; SUPPLY VOLTAGES;

ELECTRON DEVICES; GATE DIELECTRICS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 79951848754     PISSN: 01631918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEDM.2010.5703409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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