An 'aqueous route' for the fabrication of low-temperature-processable oxide flexible transparent thin-film transistors on plastic substrates

NPG Asia Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Hwang, Young Hwan ^c   Seo, Jin Suk ^a   Yun, Je Moon ^a   Park, HyungJin ^a   Yang, Shinhyuk ^b   Park, Sang Hee Ko ^b   Bae, Byeong Soo ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Oxide Electronics Research Team   (South Korea)

^c Korea Electronic Technology Institute (KETI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Flexible electronics; Oxide semiconductor; Solution process

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING TEMPERATURES; ELECTRICAL PERFORMANCE; METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR; OXIDE THINFILM TRANSISTORS (TFTS); PLASTIC SUBSTRATES; SOLUTION PROCESS; TRANSPARENT THIN FILM TRANSISTOR;

ANNEALING; CONDENSATION REACTIONS; FABRICATION; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; METAL ANALYSIS;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 84878975697     PISSN: 18844049     EISSN: 18844057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/am.2013.11     Document Type: Article

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