Highly stable and imperceptible electronics utilizing photoactivated heterogeneous sol-gel metal-oxide dielectrics and semiconductors

Adv Mater. 2015 Feb 18;27(7):1182-8. doi: 10.1002/adma.201404296. Epub 2015 Jan 7.

Abstract

Incorporation of Zr into an AlOx matrix generates an intrinsically activated ZAO surface enabling the formation of a stable semiconducting IGZO film and good interfacial properties. Photochemically annealed metal-oxide devices and circuits with the optimized sol-gel ZAO dielectric and IGZO semiconductor layers demonstrate the high performance and electrically/mechanically stable operation of flexible electronics fabricated via a low-temperature solution process.

Keywords: Rollable metal oxide TFT; deep UV photo-chemical activation; flexible metal oxide gate dielectric; low temperature; solution process.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Aluminum Oxide / chemistry
  • Electric Capacitance
  • Gels / chemistry*
  • Metals / chemistry*
  • Oxides / chemistry
  • Semiconductors*
  • Solutions / chemistry
  • Temperature
  • Ultraviolet Rays
  • Zirconium / chemistry

Substances

  • Gels
  • Metals
  • Oxides
  • Solutions
  • Zirconium
  • Aluminum Oxide