Robust Design of Digital Circuits on Foil

Covering both TFT technologies, and the theory and practice of circuit design, this book equips engineers with the technical knowledge and hands-on skills needed to make circuits on foil with organic or metal oxide based TFTs for applications such as flexible displays and RFID. It provides readers with a solid theoretical background and gives an overview of current TFT technologies including device architecture, typical parameters, and a theoretical framework for comparing different logical families. Concrete, real-world design cases, such as RFID circuits, and organic and metal oxide TFT-based 8-bit microprocessors, enable readers to grasp the practical potential of these design techniques and how they can be applied. This is an essential guide for students and professionals who need to make better transistors on foil.

List of figures; List of tables; List of symbols and abbreviations; Preface; 1. Thin-film transistor technologies on the move? From backplane driver to ubiquitous circuit enabler?; 2. Organic and metal-oxide thin-film transistors; 3. Basic gates; 4. Variability; 5. Design case: RFID tags; 6. Design case: organic microprocessor; Bibliography.

Kris Myny is Senior Researcher in the Large Area Electronics Department at IMEC, Leuven. He received the 2010 IMEC Scientific Excellence Award, and the 2011–2012 IEEE SSCS Pre-doctoral Achievement Award.
Jan Genoe is Senior Principal Scientist in the Large Area Electronics Department at IMEC, Leuven, Head of the Polymer and Molecular Electronics Group and a part-time professor at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is a member of the ISSCC's Technology Directions International Programmes Sub-Committee and has authored and co-authored over 150 papers in refereed journals.
Wim Dehaene is a professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Head of the ESAT-MICAS Research Division. He is also a part-time Principal Scientist at IMEC, a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the Technical Program Committee of ESSCIRC, and the 2016 Short Course Chair for ISSCC.