Megahertz-class printed high mobility organic thin-film transistors and inverters on plastic using attoliter-scale high-speed gravure-printed sub-5 μm gate electrodes

Organic Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3639-3647

  Kang, Hongki ^a   Kitsomboonloha, Rungrot ^a   Ulmer, Kurt ^b   Stecker, Lisa ^b   Grau, Gerd ^a   Jang, Jaewon ^a   Subramanian, Vivek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHARP LABORATORIES OF AMERICA   (United States)

Author keywords

Flexible electronics; Gravure printing; Organic electronics; Organic TFTs; Printed electronics; Roll to roll printing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; GRAPHIC METHODS; OFFSET PRINTING; REFRACTORY METAL COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; THIN FILM TRANSISTORS; THIN FILMS;

GRAVURE PRINTING; ORGANIC ELECTRONICS; ORGANIC TFTS; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; ROLL TO ROLL;

THIN FILM CIRCUITS;

EID: 84908518101     PISSN: 15661199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.10.005     Document Type: Article

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