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Organic transistors are the holy grail in the emerging world of flexible, low-cost printed electronics. Electronic products made with organic components are dramatically less costly to manufacture and more versatile than today’s silicon-based products.
The technology is also thinner, more flexible and efficient than transistors have ever been. Current applications include smart tags, RFID, electronics for light-weight, flexible displays, RFID, smart labels, track and trace tags.
This study, written by leading industry expert Dr Bruce E Kahn, is your comprehensive guide to printing organic transistors and includes principles and operation, materials (including conductors, semiconductors, dielectrics and substrates) and applications (including backplanes, optoelectronics and RFID).
You’ll also read about crucial future trends, who the major players are and how they are using the technology now and in the future.
ESSENTIAL FOR:
*OLED and LED manufacturers
*Lighting companies
*Display manufacturers
*Inks and substrates providers
*Polymer and chemical producers
*Organic material and substrate suppliers
*Packaging and consumer good companies
*Printable electronics and inkjet developers
*RFID tag and component suppliers and developers
*Smart card companies
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION AND SCOPE
TRANSISTORS
1.1. Principles and operation
1.2. Structure
1.3. Characterization
MATERIALS
Conductors (Metallic, Organic)
Semiconductors (p, n, ambipolar)
Dielectrics
Substrates
APPLICATIONS
Backplanes
Logic
Optoelectronics
RFID PRINTING/PATTERNING TECHNIQUES
Processes with physical master
-Processes where master has relief
Raised (flexography, soft lithography)
Lowered (gravure, p)ad
-Processes where master doesn’t have relief
Offset Lithography
Screen
Processes without physical master
Ink-jet
Thermal/ablation
Liquid dispensing
FUTURE TRENDS
MAJOR PLAYERS
Industrial
Plastic Logic
OrganicID
PolyIC
3M
Dupont
Xerox
Motorola
Dow
Academic
Cambridge (Friend, Sirringhaus)
Subramanian Marks