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The Impact of Thermal Stress, Mechanical Stress and Environment on Dimensional Reproducibility of Polyester Film during Flexible Electronics Processing

  • MacDonald, William A.;Eveson, Robert;MacKerron, Duncan;Adam, Raymond;Rollins, Keith;Rustin, Robert;Looney, M. Kieran;Stewart, John;Hashimoto, Katsuyuki
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.08a
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    • pp.448-451
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    • 2007
  • DuPont Teijin $Films^{TM}$ (DTF) have developed engineered substrates specifically for the flexible electronics market. $Teonex^{(R)}$ Q65, $Melinex^{(R)}$ ST506 and ST504 are biaxially oriented crystalline polyesters with the option of planarised surfaces. These films are emerging as competitive materials for the base substrate in OLED displays and active matrix backplanes. Given the demanding dimensional reproducibility requirements in the display applications, it is critical to control the several factors that can influence the film distortion in order to achieve the ultimate performance. This paper will discuss the impact of thermal stress, mechanical stress and the processing environment on dimensional reproducibility of polyester film and give examples of how this impacts on the film in device manufacture.

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Atomic Layer Deposition for Display Applications

  • Park, Jin-Seong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2013.08a
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    • pp.76.1-76.1
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    • 2013
  • Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) has remarkably developed in semiconductor and nano-structure applications since early 1990. Now, the advantages of ALD process are well-known as controlling atomic-level-thickness, manipulating atomic-level-composition control, and depositing impurity-free films uniformly. These unique properties may accelerate ALD related industries and applications in various functional thin film markets. On the other hand, one of big markets, Display industry, just starts to look at the potential to adopt ALD functional films in emerging display applications, such as transparent and flexible displays. Unlike conventional ALD process strategies (good quality films and stable precursors at high deposition processes), recently major display industries have suggested the following requirements: large area equipment, reasonable throughput, low temperature process, and cost-effective functional precursors. In this talk, it will be mentioned some demands of display industries for applying ALD processes and/or functional films, in terms of emerging display technologies. In fact, the AMOLED (active matrix organic light emitting diode) Television markets are just starting at early 2013. There are a few possibilities and needs to be developing for AMOLED, Flexible and transparent Display markets. Moreover, some basic results will be shown to specify ALD display applications, including transparent conduction oxide, oxide semiconductor, passivation and barrier films.

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The Fabrication and Electrical Characteristics of Pentacene TFT using Polyimide and Polyacryl as a Gate Dielectric Layer (Polymide와 Polyacryl을 게이트 절연층으로 이용한 pentacene TFT의 제작과 전기적 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Yun-Myoung;Kim, Ok-Byoung;Kim, Young-Kwan;Kim, Jung-Soo
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.161-168
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    • 2001
  • Organic thin film transitors(TFTs) are of interest for use in broad area electronic applications. For example, in active matrix liquid crystal displays(AMLCDs), organic TFTs would allow the use of inexpensive, light-weight, flexible, and mechanically rugged plastic substrates as an alternative to the glass substrates needed for commonly used hydrogenated amorphous silicon(a-Si:H). Recently pentacene TFTs with carrier field effect, mobility as large as 2 $cm^2V^{-1}s^{-1}$ have been reported for TFTs fabricated on silicon substrates, and it is higher than that of a-Si:H. But these TFTs are fabricated on silicon wafer and $SiO_2$ was used as a gate insulator. $SiO_2$ deposition process requires a high insulator which is polyimide and photo acryl. We investigated trasfer and output characteristics of the thin film transistors having active layer of pentacene. We calculated field effect mobility and on/off ratio from transfer characteristics of pentacene thin film transistor, and measured IR absorption spectrum of polymide used as the gate dielectric layer. It was found that using the photo acryl as a gate insulator, threshold voltage decreased from -12.5 V to -7 V, field effect mobility increased from 0.012 $cm^2V^{-1}s^{-1}$ to 0.039 $cm^2V^{-1}s^{-1}$ , and on/off current ratio increased from $10^5\;to\;10^6$. It seems that TFTs using photo acryl gate insulator is apt to form channel than TFTs using polyimide gate insulator.

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