Printed organic electronics

• Chapter in Flexible Flat Panel Displays

Organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) have received interest in recent years for their potential as a low-cost alternative to amorphous silicon thin film transistors (TFTs) for electronic applications (Dimitrakopoulos and Mascaro, 2002; Katz, Bao, and Gilat, 2001). OTFT-based circuits are particularly suited for large-area devices, such as active matrix displays, where high switching speed is not required; they may also be attractive for low-cost microelectronic devices such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags where the high cost of packaging silicon circuits becomes prohibitive. To produce low-cost OTFTs requires shifting from inorganic semiconduction processing paradigms— epitaxial wafers, photolithography, and vacuum deposition—to a new set of fabrication methods— rolled plastic substrates, print patterning, and solution-based deposition.

citation

Apte, R. B. ; Street, R. A. ; Arias, A. C. ; Salleo, A. ; Chabinyc, M. ; Wong, W. S. ; Ong, B. S.; Wu, Y.; Liu, P.; Gardner, S. Printed organic electronics. Chapter in Flexible Flat Panel Displays, edited by G. P. Crawford. Chichester, England: Wiley; 2005: 219-262.