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Overview of Flexible Electronics Technology |
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1 | (28) |
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History of Flexible Electronics |
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1 | (2) |
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Materials for Flexible Electronics |
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3 | (15) |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (3) |
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8 | (4) |
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12 | (4) |
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16 | (2) |
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Fabrication Technology for Flexible Electronics |
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18 | (2) |
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Fabrication on Sheets by Batch Processing |
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18 | (1) |
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Fabrication on Web by Roll-to-Roll Processing |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (1) |
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20 | (9) |
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20 | (9) |
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Mechanical Theory of the Film-on-Substrate-Foil Structure: Curvature and Overlay Alignment in Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Devices Fabricated on Free-Standing Foil Substrates |
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29 | (24) |
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29 | (3) |
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32 | (4) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (14) |
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Strain in the Substrate, εs(Td), and the Film, εf(Td), at the Deposition Temperature Td |
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36 | (2) |
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Strain in the Substrate, εs(Tr), and the Film, εf(Tr), at Room Temperature Tr |
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38 | (4) |
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Radius of Curvature R of the Workpiece |
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42 | (4) |
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Strain of the Substrate and the Curvature of the Workpiece for a Three-Layer Structure |
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46 | (1) |
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Experimental Results for a-Si:H TFTs Fabricated on Kapton |
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47 | (3) |
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50 | (3) |
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50 | (3) |
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Low-temperature Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon Materials and Thin-film Transistors |
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53 | (22) |
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53 | (2) |
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Low-temperature Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon Materials |
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55 | (2) |
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Fundamental Issues for Low-temperature Processing |
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55 | (1) |
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Low-temperature Amorphous Silicon |
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56 | (1) |
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Low-temperature Nanocrystalline Silicon |
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56 | (1) |
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Low-temperature Dielectrics |
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57 | (2) |
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Characteristics of Low-temperature Dielectric Thin-film Deposition |
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57 | (1) |
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Low-temperature Silicon Nitride Characteristics |
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57 | (1) |
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Low-temperature Silicon Oxide Characteristics |
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58 | (1) |
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Low-temperature Thin-film Transistor Devices |
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59 | (8) |
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Device Structures and Materials Processing |
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60 | (1) |
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Low-temperature a-Si:H Thin-Film Transistor Device Performance |
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61 | (1) |
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Contacts to a-Si:H Thin-film Transistors |
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62 | (2) |
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Low-temperature Doped nc-Si Contacts |
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64 | (2) |
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Low-temperature nc-Si TFTs |
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66 | (1) |
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67 | (3) |
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Conclusions and Future Prospective |
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70 | (5) |
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70 | (5) |
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Amorphous Silicon: Flexible Backplane and Display Application |
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75 | (32) |
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75 | (1) |
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Enabling Technologies for Flexible Backplanes and Displays |
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76 | (15) |
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Flexible Substrate Technologies |
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76 | (6) |
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TFT Technologies for Flexible Backplanes |
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82 | (7) |
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Display Media for Flexible Displays (LCD, Reflective-EP, OLED) |
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89 | (1) |
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90 | (1) |
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Flexible Active Matrix Backplane Requirements for OLED Displays |
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91 | (4) |
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92 | (3) |
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Flexible AMOLED Displays Using a-Si TFT Backplanes |
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95 | (7) |
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Backplane Fabrication Using PEN Plastic Substrates |
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95 | (3) |
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Flexible OLED Display Fabrication |
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98 | (2) |
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Flexible AMOLED Display Fabrication with Thin-film Encapsulation |
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100 | (2) |
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Flexible Electrophoretic Displays Fabricated using a-Si TFT Backplanes |
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102 | (1) |
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Outlook for Low-Temperature a-Si TFT for Flexible Electronics Manufacturing |
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102 | (5) |
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105 | (2) |
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Flexible Transition Metal Oxide Electronics and Imprint Lithography |
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107 | (36) |
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107 | (1) |
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108 | (5) |
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Properties of Transistor Materials |
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113 | (4) |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (1) |
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116 | (1) |
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117 | (2) |
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Fabrication on Flexible Substrates |
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119 | (9) |
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120 | (2) |
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Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography |
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122 | (4) |
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126 | (1) |
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Summary of Imprint Lithography |
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127 | (1) |
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Flexible TMO Device Results |
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128 | (5) |
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Future Problems and Areas of Research |
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133 | (5) |
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134 | (1) |
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Low-Temperature Dielectrics |
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135 | (1) |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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Flexure and Adhesion of TMO |
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137 | (1) |
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Flexible Fabrication Method Yields |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (5) |
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139 | (4) |
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Materials and Novel Patterning Methods for Flexible Electronics |
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143 | (40) |
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143 | (2) |
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Materials Considerations for Flexible Electronics |
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145 | (5) |
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145 | (1) |
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Inorganic Semiconductors and Dielectrics |
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145 | (1) |
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Organic Semiconductors and Dielectrics |
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146 | (3) |
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149 | (1) |
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Print-Processing Options for Device Fabrication |
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150 | (7) |
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150 | (1) |
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Control of Feature Sizes of Jet-Printed Liquids |
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151 | (2) |
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Jet-Printing for Etch-Mask Patterning |
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153 | (1) |
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Methods for Minimizing Feature Size |
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154 | (2) |
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Printing Active Materials |
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156 | (1) |
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Performance and Characterization of Electronic Devices |
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157 | (13) |
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157 | (1) |
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Bias Stress in Organic Thin-Film Transistors |
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158 | (5) |
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Nonideal Scaling of Short-Channel Organic TFTs |
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163 | (2) |
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Low-Temperature a-Si:H TFT Device Stability |
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165 | (2) |
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Low-temperature a-Si:H p-i-n Devices |
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167 | (3) |
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Printed Flexible Electronics |
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170 | (6) |
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170 | (1) |
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Digital Lithography for Flexible Image Sensor Arrays |
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170 | (2) |
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Printed Organic Backplanes |
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172 | (4) |
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Conclusions and Future Prospects |
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176 | (7) |
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176 | (7) |
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Sheet-Type Sensors and Actuators |
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183 | (32) |
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183 | (1) |
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Sheet-type Image Scanners |
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184 | (17) |
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185 | (1) |
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Device Structure and Manufacturing Process |
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186 | (4) |
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Electronic Performance of Organic Photodiodes |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (2) |
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193 | (2) |
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Issues Related to Device Processes: Pixel Stability and Resolution |
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195 | (1) |
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A Hierarchal Approach for Slow Organic Circuits |
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196 | (1) |
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The Double-Wordline and Double-Bitline Structure |
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196 | (3) |
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A New Dynamic Second-Wordline Decoder |
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199 | (1) |
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Higher Speed Operation with Lower Power Consumption |
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199 | (1) |
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New Applications and Future Prospects |
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200 | (1) |
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Sheet-Type Braille Displays |
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201 | (11) |
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201 | (3) |
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Electronic Performance of Braille Cells |
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204 | (6) |
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Organic Transistor-based SRAM |
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210 | (1) |
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211 | (1) |
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212 | (1) |
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212 | (3) |
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213 | (2) |
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Organic and Polymeric TFTs for Flexible Displays and Circuits |
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215 | (46) |
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215 | (1) |
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Important Organic TFT Parameters for Electronic Systems |
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216 | (11) |
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216 | (3) |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (2) |
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222 | (1) |
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222 | (1) |
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Capacitances and Frequency Response |
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223 | (2) |
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225 | (1) |
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Bias-Stress Instability and Hysteresis |
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225 | (2) |
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227 | (9) |
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227 | (1) |
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Liquid Crystal and Electrophoretic Displays |
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228 | (8) |
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Active Matrix OLED Displays |
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236 | (6) |
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236 | (6) |
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Using Organic TFTs for Electronic Circuits |
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242 | (14) |
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Thin-Film Transistor Circuits |
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242 | (4) |
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Frequency Limitations of OTFTs |
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246 | (1) |
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Integrated Display Drivers |
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247 | (1) |
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Radio Frequency Identification Tags |
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248 | (8) |
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256 | (5) |
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256 | (5) |
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Semiconducting Polythiophenes for Field-Effect Transistor Devices in Flexible Electronics: Synthesis and Structure Property Relationships |
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261 | (36) |
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261 | (3) |
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Polymerization of Thiophene Monomers |
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264 | (9) |
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264 | (1) |
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Synthetic Routes for the Preparation of Thiophene Polymers |
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264 | (9) |
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273 | (6) |
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275 | (1) |
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Thin-film Device Processing and Morphology |
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276 | (1) |
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Doping and Oxidative Stability |
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277 | (2) |
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Polythiophene Structural Analogues |
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279 | (7) |
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286 | (6) |
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Poly(Thieno(2,3-b)Thiophenes) |
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286 | (2) |
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Poly(Thieno(3,2-b)Thiophenes) |
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288 | (4) |
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292 | (5) |
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293 | (4) |
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Solution Cast Films of Carbon Nanotubes for Transparent Conductors and Thin Film Transistors |
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297 | (32) |
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Introduction: Nanoscale Carbon for Electronics, the Value Proposition |
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297 | (1) |
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Carbon NT Film Properties |
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298 | (7) |
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Carbon Nanotubes: The Building Blocks |
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298 | (1) |
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Carbon Nanotube Network as an Electronic Material |
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298 | (2) |
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Electrical and Optical Properties of NT Films |
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300 | (4) |
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Doping and Chemical Functionalization |
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304 | (1) |
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305 | (4) |
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306 | (1) |
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306 | (3) |
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Carbon NT Films as Conducting and Optically Transparent Material |
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309 | (4) |
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Network Properties: Sheet Conductance and Optical Transparency |
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309 | (3) |
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Applications: ITO Replacement |
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312 | (1) |
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Challenges and the Path Forward |
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312 | (1) |
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TFTs with Carbon Nanotube Conducting Channels |
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313 | (11) |
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314 | (2) |
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316 | (7) |
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Challenges and the Path Forward |
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323 | (1) |
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324 | (5) |
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325 | (4) |
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Physics and Materials Issues of Organic Photovoltaics |
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329 | (44) |
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329 | (1) |
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329 | (3) |
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331 | (1) |
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331 | (1) |
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Organic and Hybrid Solar Cell Architectures |
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332 | (2) |
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334 | (1) |
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334 | (4) |
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338 | (11) |
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340 | (4) |
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344 | (1) |
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Measuring Exciton Harvesting |
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344 | (3) |
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Approaches to Overcome Small Diffusion Lengths |
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347 | (2) |
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349 | (2) |
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Dissociating Geminate Pairs |
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351 | (4) |
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Heterojunction Energy Offsets |
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355 | (2) |
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Charge Transport and Recombination |
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357 | (7) |
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Diffusion-Limited Recombination |
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359 | (1) |
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Interface-Limited (Back Transfer Limited) Recombination |
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360 | (3) |
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Measurements Relevant for Extracting Charge |
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363 | (1) |
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364 | (3) |
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Efficiency Limits and Outlook |
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367 | (6) |
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368 | (5) |
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Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells for Large-Area PV Fabrication on Flexible Substrates |
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373 | (40) |
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Introduction and Motivation |
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373 | (4) |
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373 | (1) |
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374 | (1) |
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Motivation for Large-Area, Solution-Processable Photovoltaics |
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375 | (2) |
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The Concept of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells |
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377 | (24) |
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Basics of Organic Solar Cell Materials |
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377 | (1) |
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Fundamentals of Photovoltaics |
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378 | (7) |
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Understanding and Optimization of BHJ Composites |
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385 | (16) |
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Challenges for Large-Area Processing |
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401 | (7) |
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401 | (3) |
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Encapsulation of Flexible Solar Cells |
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404 | (4) |
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408 | (5) |
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409 | (4) |
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Substrates and Thin-Film Barrier Technology for Flexible Electronics |
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413 | (38) |
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413 | (1) |
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414 | (5) |
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416 | (1) |
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Substrate-Specific Requirements |
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417 | (2) |
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Thin-Film Barrier Technology |
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419 | (18) |
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419 | (1) |
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Permeation Measurement Techniques |
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420 | (6) |
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Permeation Through Thin-Film Barriers |
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426 | (11) |
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Barrier-Device Integration |
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437 | (5) |
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Substrate and Barrier Compatibility with OLEDs |
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437 | (3) |
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440 | (2) |
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442 | (9) |
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442 | (9) |
Index |
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