CMOS TFT Op-Amps: Performance and limitations

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 650-652

  Dey, Aritra ^a   Avendanno, Adrian ^b   Venugopal, Sameer ^c   Allee, David R ^a   Quevedo, Manuel ^b   Gnade, Bruce ^b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog to digital converter (ADC); hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a Si:H); op amp; pentacene; thin film transistors (TFTs); unity gain frequency (UGF)

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTING ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE; THIN FILM CIRCUITS; THIN FILMS;

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS; HYDROGENATED AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI:H); PENTACENES; THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR (TFTS); UNITY-GAIN FREQUENCIES;

THIN FILM TRANSISTORS;

EID: 85027940210     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2011.2121891     Document Type: Article

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