May 16, 2007
High-performance Transparent Inorganic-organic Hybrid Thin-film n-type Transistors :: Northwestern University
[ Research]
Thin-film transistors, already indispensable in a number of portable electronics, would benefit from optical transparency and compatibility with flexible, lightweight plastics.
Transistors with these qualities would be a major advance if they could be fabricated by a scalable, large-area process.
Researchers Liang Wang, Myung-Han Yoon, Gang Lu, Yu Yang, Antonio Facchetti and Tobin Marks at the Northwestern University MRSEC have adopted a hybrid approach in developing ‘invisible’ thin film transistors that heterogeneously integrate a transparent, inorganic semiconductor with a large carrier mobility and a nanoscopic, organic gate dielectric.
For more, see Nature Materials, 5, 893-900 (2006) or contact:
Northwestern Materials Research Center