Direct Patterned Zinc-Tin-Oxide for Solution-Processed Thin-Film Transistors and Complementary Inverter through Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Materials and Sample Preparation
2.2. Fabrication of ZTO Patterning and Solution-Processed Oxide TFTs
2.3. Fabrication of Complementary Inverters
2.4. Characterization
3. Results and Discussion
3.1. Patterning of EHD Jet-Printed ZTO Layers
3.2. ZTO Active Layer Fabrication
3.3. ZTO Active and MWCNT S/D-Based TFT
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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300 °C | 400 °C | 500 °C | |
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OX/OX + OVAC + OOH | 56.42% | 62.96% | 67.69% |
OVAC/OX + OVAC + OOH | 42.51% | 23.71% | 21.30% |
OOH/OX + OVAC + OOH | 1.06% | 13.33% | 11.01% |
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Ye, H.; Kwon, H.-J.; Tang, X.; Lee, D.Y.; Nam, S.; Kim, S.H. Direct Patterned Zinc-Tin-Oxide for Solution-Processed Thin-Film Transistors and Complementary Inverter through Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing. Nanomaterials 2020, 10, 1304. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071304
Ye H, Kwon H-J, Tang X, Lee DY, Nam S, Kim SH. Direct Patterned Zinc-Tin-Oxide for Solution-Processed Thin-Film Transistors and Complementary Inverter through Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing. Nanomaterials. 2020; 10(7):1304. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071304
Chicago/Turabian StyleYe, Heqing, Hyeok-Jin Kwon, Xiaowu Tang, Dong Yun Lee, Sooji Nam, and Se Hyun Kim. 2020. "Direct Patterned Zinc-Tin-Oxide for Solution-Processed Thin-Film Transistors and Complementary Inverter through Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing" Nanomaterials 10, no. 7: 1304. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano10071304