Scalability of carbon-nanotube-based thin film transistors for flexible electronic devices manufactured using an all roll-To-roll gravure printing system

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Abstract

To demonstrate that roll-To-roll (R2R) gravure printing is a suitable advanced manufacturing method for flexible thin film transistor (TFT)-based electronic circuits, three different nanomaterial-based inks (silver nanoparticles, BaTiO 3 nanoparticles and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs)) were selected and optimized to enable the realization of fully printed SWNT-based TFTs (SWNT-TFTs) on 150-m-long rolls of 0.25-m-wide poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET). SWNT-TFTs with 5 different channel lengths, namely, 30, 80, 130, 180, and 230â €‰I 1/4m, were fabricated using a printing speed of 8â €‰m/min. These SWNT-TFTs were characterized, and the obtained electrical parameters were related to major mechanical factors such as web tension, registration accuracy, impression roll pressure and printing speed to determine whether these mechanical factors were the sources of the observed device-To-device variations. By utilizing the electrical parameters from the SWNT-TFTs, a Monte Carlo simulation for a 1-bit adder circuit, as a reference, was conducted to demonstrate that functional circuits with reasonable complexity can indeed be manufactured using R2R gravure printing. The simulation results suggest that circuits with complexity, similar to the full adder circuit, can be printed with a 76% circuit yield if threshold voltage (V th) variations of less than 30% can be maintained.

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Koo, H., Lee, W., Choi, Y., Sun, J., Bak, J., Noh, J., … Cho, G. (2015). Scalability of carbon-nanotube-based thin film transistors for flexible electronic devices manufactured using an all roll-To-roll gravure printing system. Scientific Reports, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep14459

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