Self-aligned carbon nanotube thin-film transistors on flexible substrates with novel source-drain contact and multilayer metal interconnection

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-50

  Pham, Daniel T ^a   Subbaraman, Harish ^b   Chen, Maggie Yihong ^c   Xu, Xiaochuan ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b OMEGA OPTICS INC   (United States)

^c TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube (CNT); dip coat technique; flexible electronics; single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT); thin film transistor (TFT)

Indexed keywords

DIP-COAT TECHNIQUE; ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; GATE STRUCTURE; METAL INTERCONNECTIONS; SACRIFICIAL SUBSTRATES; SELF-ALIGNED; SINGLE-WALLED; SOURCE-DRAIN CONTACTS; TEST STRUCTURE; THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR (TFT);

CARBON; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; INK JET PRINTING; MULTILAYERS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SILVER; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN); SUBSTRATES;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84862947367     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2011.2130535     Document Type: Article

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