Thin Film Transistor Circuits and Systems

A comprehensive review of the design challenges associated with building thin-film transistor circuits and systems and how to overcome them.

Reza Chaji (Author), Arokia Nathan (Author)

9781107012332, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 August 2013

184 pages, 113 b/w illus. 11 tables
23.5 x 15.5 x 1.3 cm, 0.42 kg

Providing a reliable and consolidated treatment of the principles behind large-area electronics, this book provides a comprehensive review of the design challenges associated with building circuits and systems from thin-film transistors. The authors describe the architecture, fabrication and design considerations for the principal types of TFT and their numerous applications. The practicalities of device non-ideality are also addressed and the specific design considerations necessitated by instabilities and non-uniformities in existing fabrication technologies. Containing device-circuit information, discussion of electronic solutions that compensate for material deficiencies, and design methodologies applicable to a wide variety of organic and inorganic disordered materials, this is an essential reference for all researchers, circuit and device engineers working on large-area electronics.

1. Introduction to displays, flat panel imagers, and associated backplane technologies
2. Design specifications and considerations addressing compensation and driving schemes
3. Hybrid voltage-current programming
4. Enhanced-settling current programming
5. Charge-based driving schemes
6. High resolution architectures.

Subject Areas: Circuits & components [TJFC], Electronics engineering [TJF], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Materials science [TGM], Technical design [TBD]