OPTIMIZATION OF ORGANIC THIN-FILM TRANSISTORS FOR PLASTIC ELECTRONICS: TOWARDS TRANSPARENT COMPONENTS IN NEW DEVICES

Transparent electronics is an emerging new technology which utilizes invisible electronic and optoelectronics circuits. To obtain these circuits, the transistor building blocks materials: semiconductor, gate dielectric and conductor must be optically transparent, raising a true grand challenge. The great problem is that conventional organic semiconductors strongly absorb in the visible and few exhibit acceptable TFT performance when processed from solution.