All ink-jet-printed carbon nanotube thin-film transistor on a polyimide substrate with an ultrahigh operating frequency of over 5 GHz
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- Jarrod Vaillancourt
- University of Massachusetts Lowell 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, , One University Avenue, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA
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- Haiyan Zhang
- University of Massachusetts Lowell 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, , One University Avenue, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA
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- Puminun Vasinajindakaw
- University of Massachusetts Lowell 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, , One University Avenue, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA
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- Haitao Xia
- University of Massachusetts Lowell 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, , One University Avenue, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA
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- Xuejun Lu
- University of Massachusetts Lowell 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, , One University Avenue, Lowell, Massachusetts 01854, USA
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- Xuliang Han
- Brewer Science, Inc. 2 , 2401 Brewer Drive, Rolla, Missouri 65401, USA
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- Daniel C. Janzen
- Brewer Science, Inc. 2 , 2401 Brewer Drive, Rolla, Missouri 65401, USA
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- Wu-Sheng Shih
- Brewer Science, Inc. 2 , 2401 Brewer Drive, Rolla, Missouri 65401, USA
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- Carissa S. Jones
- Brewer Science, Inc. 2 , 2401 Brewer Drive, Rolla, Missouri 65401, USA
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- Mike Stroder
- Brewer Science, Inc. 2 , 2401 Brewer Drive, Rolla, Missouri 65401, USA
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- Maggie Yihong Chen
- Omega Optics 3 , 10435 Burnet Road, Suite 108, Austin, Texas 78758, USA
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- Harish Subbaraman
- University of Texas Austin 4 Microelectronics Center, , 10100 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78758, USA
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- Ray T. Chen
- University of Texas Austin 4 Microelectronics Center, , 10100 Burnet Rd., Austin, Texas 78758, USA
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- Urs Berger
- Optomec, Inc. 5 , 3911 Singer Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109, USA
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- Mike Renn
- Optomec, Inc. 5 , 3911 Singer Blvd. NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109, USA
書誌事項
- 公開日
- 2008-12-15
- DOI
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- 10.1063/1.3043682
- 公開者
- AIP Publishing
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説明
<jats:p>We report a flexible carbon nanotube (CNT) thin-film transistor (TFT) fabricated solely by ink-jet printing technology. The TFT is top gate configured, consisting of source and drain electrodes, a carrier transport layer based on an ultrapure, high-density (>1000 CNTs/μm2) CNT thin film, an ion-gel gate dielectric layer, and a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) top gate electrode. All the TFT elements are ink-jet printed at room temperature on a polyimide substrate without involving any photolithography patterning or surface pretreatment steps. This CNT-TFT exhibits a high operating frequency of over 5 GHz and an on-off ratio of over 100. Such an all-ink-jet-printed process eliminates the need for lithography, vacuum processing, and metallization procedures and thus provides a promising technology for low-cost, high-throughput fabrication of large-area high-speed flexible electronic circuits on virtually any desired flexible substrate.</jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Applied Physics Letters
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Applied Physics Letters 93 (24), 243301-, 2008-12-15
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