Organic‐polymer thin‐film transistors for active‐matrix flat‐panel displays?

Organic-polymer-based thin-film transistors (OP-TFTs) look very promising for flexible, large-area, and low-cost organic electronics. In this paper, we describe devices based on spin-coated organic polymer that reproducibly exhibit field-effect mobility values around 5×10-3 cm2/V-sec. We also address fabrication, performance, and stability issues that are critical for the use of such devices in active-matrix flat-panel displays.

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