Inkjet printed circuits with 2D semiconductor inks for high-performance electronics
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Air-stable semiconducting inks suitable for complementary logic are key to create low-power printed integrated circuits (ICs). High-performance printable electronic inks with 2D materials have the potential to enable the next generation of high performance low-cost printed digital electronics. Here, the authors demonstrate air-stable, low voltage (<5 V) operation of inkjet-printed n-type molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), and p-type indacenodithiophene-co-benzothiadiazole (IDT-BT) field-effect transistors (FETs), estimating an average switching time of τMoS2 ≈ 4.1 μs for the MoS2 FETs. They achieve this by engineering high-quality MoS2 and air-stable IDT-BT inks suitable for inkjet-printing complementary pairs of n-type MoS2 and p-type IDT-BT FETs. They then integrate MoS2 and IDT-BT FETs to realize inkjet-printed complementary logic inverters with a voltage gain |Av| ≈ 4 when in resistive load configuration and |Av| ≈ 1.4 in complementary configuration. These results represent a key enabling step towards ubiquitous long-term stable, low-cost printed digital ICs.
Date Issued
2021-05-13
Date Acceptance
2021-04-09
Citation
Advanced Electronic Materials, 2021
ISSN
2199-160X
Publisher
Wiley
Journal / Book Title
Advanced Electronic Materials
Copyright Statement
© 2021 The Authors. Advanced Electronic Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (E
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)
Grant Number
EP/R511547/1
EP/T005106/1
EP/P02534X/2
Subjects
0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
0912 Materials Engineering
Publication Status
Published online
Article Number
ARTN 2100112
Date Publish Online
2021-05-13