Transparent Electronics Based on Transfer Printed Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Rigid and Flexible Substrates

Ishikawa, Fumiaki N. and Chang, Hsiao-kang and Ryu, Koungmin and Chen, Po-chiang and Badmaev, Alexander and Gomez De Arco, Lewis and Shen, Guozhen and Zhou, Chongwu. (2009) Transparent Electronics Based on Transfer Printed Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Rigid and Flexible Substrates. ACS Nano, 3 (1). p. 73. ISSN 1936-0851

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Abstract

We report high-performance fully transparent thin-film transistors (TTFTs) on both rigid and flexible substrates with transfer printed aligned nanotubes as the active channel and indium−tin oxide as the source, drain, and gate electrodes. Such transistors have been fabricated through low-temperature processing, which allowed device fabrication even on flexible substrates. Transparent transistors with high effective mobilities (1300 cm2 V−1 s−1) were first demonstrated on glass substrates via engineering of the source and drain contacts, and high on/off ratio (3 × 104) was achieved using electrical breakdown. In addition, flexible TTFTs with good transparency were also fabricated and successfully operated under bending up to 120°. All of the devices showed good transparency (80% on average). The transparent transistors were further utilized to construct a fully transparent and flexible logic inverter on a plastic substrate and also used to control commercial GaN light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with light intensity modulation of 103. Our results suggest that aligned nanotubes have great potential to work as building blocks for future transparent electronics.

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Additional Information: Reprinted with permission from "Ishikawa, Fumiaki N., et al. 'Transparent Electronics Based on Transfer Printed Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Rigid and Flexible Substrates.' ACS Nano 3.1 (2009): 73–79." Copyright 2009 American Chemical Society.
InterNano Taxonomy: Nanoscale Objects and Nanostructured Materials > Nanocomposites > Thin films
Nanoscale Objects and Nanostructured Materials > Nanotubes > Carbon nanotubes
Collections: Nanomanufacturing Research Collection
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Depositing User: Rebecca Reznik-Zellen
Date Deposited: 05 Nov 2009 20:26
Last Modified: 05 Nov 2009 20:26
URI: http://eprints.internano.org/id/eprint/184

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