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Carbon nanotube based transparent electrodes for flexible displays using liquid crystal devices

  • Shin, Jun-Ho;Lee, H.C.;Lee, J.H.;Park, S.M.;Alegaonkar, P.S.;Yoo, J.B.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.08a
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    • pp.897-899
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    • 2007
  • Transparent electrodes for a flexible display based on the liquid crystal (LC) were formed by carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates. The thin multi wall carbon nanotubes (t-MWNTs) networks for electrodes were obtained by filtration- transfer method from welldispersed CNTs solution.

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New Techniques for Fabrication of Flexible Plastic LCD's

  • West, John.L.;Novotny, Grea R.;Fisch, Michael R.;Heinman, David
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.15-18
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    • 2001
  • We report simple techniques to manufacture low-powered, high-resolution, reflective cholesteric displays using flexible plastic substrates. We use wax transfer printing to replace photo-lithography and incorporate polymer walls to increase the mechanical strength and lifetime of the displays. These printing methods can easily be adapted to roll-to-roll production.

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Effects of Simultaneous Bending and Heating on Characteristics of Flexible Organic Thin Film Transistors

  • Cho, S.W.;Kim, D.I.;Lee, N.E.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2013.02a
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    • pp.470-470
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    • 2013
  • Recently, active materials such as amorphous silicon (a-Si), poly crystalline silicon (poly-Si), transition metal oxide semiconductors (TMO), and organic semiconductors have been demonstrated for flexible electronics. In order to apply flexible devices on the polymer substrates, all layers should require the characteristic of flexibility as well as the low temperature process. Especially, pentacene thin film transistors (TFTs) have been investigated for probable use in low-cost, large-area, flexible electronic applications such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, smart cards, display backplane driver circuits, and sensors. Since pentacene TFTs were studied, their electrical characteristics with varying single variable such as strain, humidity, and temperature have been reported by various groups, which must preferentially be performed in the flexible electronics. For example, the channel mobility of pentacene organic TFTs mainly led to change in device performance under mechanical deformation. While some electrical characteristics like carrier mobility and concentration of organic TFTs were significantly changed at the different temperature. However, there is no study concerning multivariable. Devices actually worked in many different kinds of the environment such as thermal, light, mechanical bending, humidity and various gases. For commercialization, not fewer than two variables of mechanism analysis have to be investigated. Analyzing the phenomenon of shifted characteristics under the change of multivariable may be able to be the importance with developing improved dielectric and encapsulation layer materials. In this study, we have fabricated flexible pentacene TFTs on polymer substrates and observed electrical characteristics of pentacene TFTs exposed to tensile and compressive strains at the different values of temperature like room temperature (RT), 40, 50, $60^{\circ}C$. Effects of bending and heating on the device performance of pentacene TFT will be discussed in detail.

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Rigid and flexible displays with solution processed dielectric passivation layer integrated with E-Ink imaging films

  • Krishnamoorthy, Ahila;Spear, Richard;Gebrebrhan, Amanuel;Stifanos, Mehari;Yellowaga, Deborah;O'Rourke, Shawn;Loy, Doug;Dailey, Jeff;Marrs, Michael;Ageno, Scott
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.86-88
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    • 2008
  • Organosiloxane based spin on planarizing dielectrics (PTS-E and PTS-R) were developed for application in flat panel displays as a replacement to conformal chemical vapor deposited SiNx. Here we demonstrate the successful use of siloxane-based material as a passivation layer for active matrix $\alpha$-Si thin film transistors (TFT) on both rigid and flexible substrates.

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Flexible and Transparent Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite Field-Effect Transistor for Temperature Sensing

  • Tran, QuangTrung;Ramasundaram, Subramanian;Hong, Seok Won;Lee, Nae-Eung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2014.02a
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    • pp.387.1-387.1
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    • 2014
  • A new class of temperature-sensing materials is demonstrated along with their integration into transparent and flexible field-effect transistor (FET) temperature sensors with high thermal responsivity, stability, and reproducibility. The novelty of this particular type of temperature sensor is the incorporation of an R-GO/P(VDF-TrFE) nanocomposite channel as a sensing layer that is highly responsive to temperature, and is optically transparent and mechanically flexible. Furthermore, the nanocomposite sensing layer is easily coated onto flexible substrates for the fabrication of transparent and flexible FETs using a simple spin-coating method. The transparent and flexible nanocomposite FETs are capable of detecting an extremely small temperature change as small as $0.1^{\circ}C$ and are highly responsive to human body temperature. Temperature responsivity and optical transmittance of transparent nanocomposite FETs were adjustable and tuneable by changing the thickness and R-GO concentration of the nanocomposite.

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Low-Temperature Processable Charge Transporting Materials for the Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells

  • Jo, Jea Woong;Yoo, Yongseok;Jeong, Taehee;Ahn, SeJin;Ko, Min Jae
    • Electronic Materials Letters
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.657-668
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    • 2018
  • Organic-inorganic hybrid lead halide perovskites have been extensively investigated for various optoelectronic applications. Particularly, owing to their ability to form highly crystalline and homogeneous films utilizing low-temperature solution processes (< $150^{\circ}C$), perovskites have become promising photoactive materials for realizing high-performance flexible solar cells. However, the current use of mesoporous $TiO_2$ scaff olds, which require high-temperature sintering processes (> $400^{\circ}C$), has limited the fabrication of perovskite solar cells on flexible substrates. Therefore, the development of a low-temperature processable charge-transporting layer has emerged as an urgent task for achieving flexible perovskite solar cells. This review summarizes the recent progress in low-temperature processable electron- and hole-transporting layer materials, which contribute to improved device performance in flexible perovskite solar cells.

Fabrication of CNT Flexible Field Emitters and Their Field Emission Properties

  • Shin, Dong-Hoon;Song, Yenan;Sun, Yuning;Shin, Ji-Hong;Lee, Cheol-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2011.08a
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    • pp.384-384
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    • 2011
  • Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been studied as an ideal material for field emitters due to the high aspect ratio, excellent electrical property and good mechanical strength. There were many reports on CNT emitters fabricated on rigid substrates, but rare reports about CNT flexible field emitters. Recently, we considered that CNTs can be a good candidate for a flexible field emitter material because of their excellent Young's modulus and elasticity, which could not be achieved with metal tips or semiconducting nanowire tips. In this work, we demonstrated the CNT flexible field emitters fabricated by a simple method and studied the field emission properties of the CNT flexible field emitters under various bending conditions. The flexible field emitters showed stable and uniform emission characteristics. Especially, there is no remarkable change of the field emission properties at the CNT flexible field emitters according to the bending conditions. The CNT flexible field emitters also exhibited a good field emission performance like the low turn-on field and high emission current. Therefore, we suggest that the CNT flexible emitters can be used in many practical applications under different bending conditions.

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Highly Flexible Low Power Consumption AMOLED Displays on Ultra-Thin Stainless Steel Substrates

  • Hack, Mike;Ma, Rui-Qing;Rajan, Kamala;Brown, Julie J.;Cheon, Jun-Hyuk;Kim, Se-Hwan;Kang, Moon-Hyo;Lee, Won-Gyu;Jang, Jin
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.10a
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    • pp.171-174
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    • 2008
  • We present results demonstrating that low power consumption phosphorescent AMOLED displays can be fabricated on ultra-thin ($25{\mu}m$) stainless steel substrates, combining an amorphous silicon backplane with a top emission phosphorescent OLED frontplane. We will present preliminary results of flexibility testing on these displays.

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Nanosecond Laser Sintering Process for Fabricating ITO film (ITO 박막 형성을 위한 나노초 레이저 소결 공정)

  • Park, Taesoon;Kim, Dongsik
    • Laser Solutions
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.13-16
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    • 2014
  • Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) has been used widely for transparent conducting thin films. In this work, the feasibility of a laser sintering process to fabricate ITO thin films on flexible substrates is examined. Nanoparticles of ~10 nm were spin coated on a Si wafer and then sintered by a KrF excimer laser. The sintered structure was characterized by scanning electron microscopy. Polycrystalline structures were fabricated by the process without thermally damaging the substrate. The electrical resistivity of the film was reduced to ~ 1/1000 of the initial value. This work demonstrates that nanosecond laser sintering of ITO particles can be a useful tool to fabricate ITO films on various flexible substrates.

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Characteristics of Poly-Si TFTs Fabricated on Flexible Substrates using Sputter Deposited a-Si Films

  • Kim, Y.H.;Moon, D.G.;Kim, W.K.;Han, J.I.
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.07a
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    • pp.297-300
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    • 2005
  • The characteristics of polycrystalline silicon thin-film transistors (poly-Si TFTs) fabricated using sputter deposited amorphous silicon (a-Si) precursor films are investigated. The a-Si films were deposited on flexible polymer substrates using argon-helium mixture gases to minimize the argon incorporation into the film. The precursor films were then laser annealed by using a XeCl excimer laser and a four-mask-processed poly-Si TFT was fabricated with fully self-aligned top gate structure. The fabricated pMOS TFT showed field-effect mobility of $32.4cm^2/V{\cdot}s$ and on/off ratio of $10^6$.

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