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Super‐ and Ultrathin Organic Field‐Effect Transistors: from Flexibility to Super‐ and Ultraflexibility
Author(s) -
Nawrocki Robert A.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advanced functional materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.069
H-Index - 322
eISSN - 1616-3028
pISSN - 1616-301X
DOI - 10.1002/adfm.201906908
Subject(s) - fabrication , materials science , electronics , flexibility (engineering) , nanotechnology , organic electronics , flexible electronics , nanometre , transistor , printed electronics , thin film transistor , engineering physics , optoelectronics , electrical engineering , inkwell , composite material , engineering , layer (electronics) , voltage , medicine , statistics , alternative medicine , mathematics , pathology
Physically flexible electronics offer a wide range of benefits, including the development of next‐generation consumer electronics and healthcare products. The advancement of physical flexibility, typically achieved by the reduction of the total device thickness, including substrates and encapsulation layers, shows great promise for skin‐laminated electronics. Organic electronics—devices relying on carbon‐based materials—offer many advantages over their inorganic counterparts, including the following: significantly lower fabrication temperatures resulting in alternative fabrication techniques, including inkjet and roll‐to‐roll printing, enabling low‐cost and large‐area fabrication; biocompatibility; and spectacular physical flexibility. This article presents a review, spanning the last two decades, of organic field‐effect transistors with the total thickness of just a few microns as well as devices demonstrated in this decade with a total thickness of few hundred of nanometers. A handful of demonstrations of other organic electronic thin film devices are also presented.