The sophistication and flexibility of the patterning procedures, high level of integration on plastic substrates, large area coverage, and good
performance of the transistors are all important features of this work.
«These impurities can act as charged defects that trap charge carriers in semiconductors and reduce carriers» mobility, which eventually could deteriorate
the performance of transistors.»
The structural investigations of model organic systems like pentacene in the monolayer regime is very important for fundamental understanding of the initial nucleation process together with the electronic
performance of transistor devices.
Not exact matches
The computer's
performance has generally been improved through upgrades in digital semiconductor
performance: shrinking the size
of the semiconductor's
transistors to ramp up transaction speed, packing more
of them onto the chip to increase processing power, and even substituting silicon with compounds such as gallium arsenide or indium phosphide, which allow electrons to move at a higher velocity.
This will help physicists and device engineers to design better quantum capacitors, an array
of subatomic power storage components capable to keep high energy densities, for instance, in batteries, and vertical
transistors, leading to next - generation optoelectronics with lower power consumption and dissipation
of heat (cold devices), and better
performance.
The work was described in a paper, «High - temperature
performance of MoS2 thin - film
transistors: Direct current and pulse current - voltage characteristics,» that was just published in the Journal
of Applied Physics.
Mitra and Wong are presenting a second paper at the conference showing how their team made some
of the highest
performance CNT
transistors ever built.
Creating high -
performance layers
of CNT
transistors was only part
of their innovation.
Even at this stage, off - center spin coating produced
transistors with a range
of speeds much faster than those
of previous organic semiconductors and comparable to the
performance of the polysilicon materials used in today's high - end electronics.
In the paper, researchers examined the effect
of a fluoropolymer coating called PVDF - TrFE on single - walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT)
transistors and ring oscillator circuits, and demonstrated that these coatings can substantially improve the
performance of single - walled carbon nanotube devices.
To overcome the drawbacks
of single - walled carbon nanotube field - effect
transistors and improve their
performance, the researchers deposited PVDF - TrFE on the top
of self - fabricated single - walled carbon nanotube
transistors by inkjet printing, a low - cost, solution based deposition process with good spatial resolution.
On the circuit level, since a
transistor is the most basic component in digital circuits, the improved uniformity in device characteristics, plus the beneficial effects from individual
transistors eventually result in improved
performance of a five - stage complementary ring oscillator circuit, one
of the simplest digital circuits.
«An analogy from conventional computing hardware would be that we have finally worked out how to build a
transistor with good enough
performance to make logic circuits, but the technology for wiring thousands
of those
transistors together to build an electronic computer is still in its infancy.»
To improve
performance, Intel can put as many as three
of these fins in a single
transistor.
By precise control
of several factors, uniform high -
performance monolayers
of the semiconductor MoS2 have been obtained and used to fabricate field - effect
transistors.
At the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco on Monday, Akinwande's team reported both graphene and molybdenum disulfide
transistors made on specially coated paper that boasted
performance levels that match those
of devices built on plastic.
The
transistor was developed as part
of research IBM is conducting for the U.S. Department
of Defense's DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) program to develop high -
performance RF (radio frequency)
transistors.
Indro Mukerjee Chairman
of Plastic Logic said «I believe that the full potential
of plastic electronics is now emerging as transformational developments in flexible
transistor performance and bold, new concepts drive more and more applications.
To examine the
performance and uniformity
of the devices, we probed selected
transistors by establishing gate and source contacts at the edges
of the circuits and drain contacts at the corresponding unit cell.
The
performance of these systems is excellent: (i) the
transistors have characteristics (e.g., on and off currents, etc.) that are comparable to, or better than, those
of similar devices fabricated on rigid silicon supports by using conventional photolithographic methods, and (ii) the optical characteristics (e.g., switching time, contrast ratio, etc.)
of the resulting displays are as good as those
of low - resolution signs that use similar electronic inks and direct - drive dressing schemes.
The success
of this effort relies on new or improved processing techniques and materials for plastic electronics, including methods for (i) rubber stamping (microcontact printing) high - resolution (≈ 1 μm) circuits with low levels
of defects and good registration over large areas, (ii) achieving low leakage with thin dielectrics deposited onto surfaces with relief, (iii) constructing high -
performance organic
transistors with bottom contact geometries, (iv) encapsulating these
transistors, (v) depositing, in a repeatable way, organic semiconductors with uniform electrical characteristics over large areas, and (vi) low - temperature (≈ 100 °C) annealing to increase the on / off ratios
of the
transistors and to improve the uniformity
of their characteristics.
Building upon the milestone reached in June 2015, FlexEnable and CPT will exhibit its glass - free, full colour, flexible AMOLED display, showcasing the
performance of organic
transistors, in combination with mainstream OLED manufacturing techniques.
(PhysOrg.com)-- A clever but simple new way
of making
transistors out
of high -
performance organic microwires presents a potential path for products such as smart merchandise tags, light and cheap solar panels, and flexible...
Providing insight into a frustrating inconsistency in the
performance of electronics made with organic materials, Stanford researchers have shown that the way boundaries between individual crystals in a film are aligned can make a 70-fold difference in how easily current, or electrical charges, can move through
transistors.
Salleo's group led a multidisciplinary team
of researchers in making a systematic study
of a likely culprit
of the inconsistent
transistor performance in polycrystalline devices: the «grain» boundaries between crystals.
A similar problem was manifest years ago when electrical engineers attempted to characterize device (
transistor)
performance at RF / microwave frequencies using the usual I and E (or e) quantities but encountered shortcomings using that approach until the discovery a revolutionary new way
of «handling» a myriad
of interactions at very high frequencies... the S - Parameter method
of device characterization was born.
«The
performance gains and power savings
of Intel's unique 3 - D Tri-Gate
transistors are like nothing we've seen before,» said Mark Bohr, Intel Senior Fellow.
In spite
of being based on a similar 3D
transistor structure as its 14nm predecessor, the smaller 10LPE manufacturing process allows for an increase
of 27 - percent in
performance and 40 - percent in energy efficiency.
TSMC 20nm process is the smallest, commercially viable planar
transistor process currently available, yielding all the cost benefits
of developing «traditional» 2D
transistors, while still offering great power efficiency, and
performance.