Aerosol Jet Printed, Low Voltage, Electrolyte Gated Carbon Nanotube Ring Oscillators with Sub-5 μs Stage Delays
| Autor: | Wei Zhang, Pradyumna L. Prabhumirashi, Chris H. Kim, Mingjing Ha, Jung Woo T. Seo, Michael J. Renn, Mark C. Hersam, C. Daniel Frisbie, Michael L. Geier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Materials science
business.industry Mechanical Engineering Gate dielectric Transistor Analytical chemistry Bioengineering General Chemistry Dielectric Ring oscillator Condensed Matter Physics Capacitance law.invention Thin-film transistor law Printed electronics Optoelectronics General Materials Science business Low voltage |
| Zdroj: | Nano Letters. 13:954-960 |
| ISSN: | 1530-6992 1530-6984 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/nl3038773 |
| Popis: | A central challenge for printed electronics is to achieve high operating frequencies (short transistor switching times) at low supply biases compatible with thin film batteries. In this report, we demonstrate partially printed five-stage ring oscillators with20 kHz operating frequencies and stage delays5 μs at supply voltages below 3 V. The fastest ring oscillator achieved 1.2 μs delay time at 2 V supply. The inverter stages in these ring oscillators were based on ambipolar thin film transistors (TFTs) employing semiconducting, single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) networks and a high capacitance (∼1 μF/cm(2)) ion gel electrolyte as the gate dielectric. All materials except the source and drain electrodes were aerosol jet printed. The TFTs exhibited high electron and hole mobilities (∼20 cm(2)/(V s)) and ON/OFF current ratios (up to 10(5)). Inverter switching times t were systematically characterized as a function of transistor channel length and ionic conductivity of the gel dielectric, demonstrating that both the semiconductor and the ion gel play a role in switching speed. Quantitative scaling analysis suggests that with suitable optimization low voltage, printed ion gel gated CNT inverters could operate at frequencies on the order of 1 MHz. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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