Enabling thin-film transistor technologies and the device metrics that matter

Alexandra F. Paterson; Thomas D. Anthopoulos

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07424-2

Enabling thin-film transistor technologies and the device metrics that matter

Alexandra F. Paterson, Thomas D. Anthopoulos

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Abstract

The field-effect transistor kickstarted the digital revolution that propelled our society into the information age. One member of the now large family of field-effect devices is the thin-film transistor (TFT), best known for its enabling role in modern flat-panel displays. TFTs can be used in all sorts of innovative applications because of the broad variety of materials they can be made from, which give them diverse electrical and mechanical characteristics. To successfully utilize TFT technologies in a variety of rapidly emerging applications, such as flexible, stretchable and transparent large-area microelectronics, there are a number of metrics that matter.

Original language	English
Article number	5264
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	9
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07424-2
State	Published - Dec 1 2018

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The authors would like to thank King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for financial support.

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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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General Chemistry
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Physics and Astronomy

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