Printing technology and advantage of purified semiconducting carbon nanotubes for thin film transistor fabrication on plastic films

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1000-1005

  Numata, Hideaki ^a,c   Ihara, Kazuki ^a,c   Saito, Takeshi ^a,b   Nihey, Fumiyuki ^a,c  

^a Technology Research Association for Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes TASC   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

carbon nanotube; printable electronics; thin film transistor

Indexed keywords

FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; FIELD-EFFECT MOBILITIES; ON-CURRENTS; ON/OFF RATIO; PATTERNING PROCESS; PRINTABLE ELECTRONICS; PRINTING TECHNOLOGIES; RANDOM NETWORK; SEMICONDUCTING CARBON NANOTUBES; SURFACE FREE ENERGY; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS (TFT); THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR (TFTS);

CARBON NANOTUBES; FABRICATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PLASTIC FILMS; PURIFICATION;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84858979118     PISSN: 19449399     EISSN: 19449380     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NANO.2011.6144627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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