Large-scale complementary integrated circuits based on organic transistors

B. Crone, A. Dodabalapur (), Y.-Y. Lin, R. W. Filas, Z. Bao, A. LaDuca, R. Sarpeshkar, H. E. Katz and W. Li
Additional contact information
B. Crone: Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
A. Dodabalapur: Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Y.-Y. Lin: Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
R. W. Filas: Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Z. Bao: Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
A. LaDuca: Lucent Technologies
R. Sarpeshkar: Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
H. E. Katz: Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
W. Li: Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies

Nature, 2000, vol. 403, issue 6769, 521-523

Abstract: Abstract Thin-film transistors based on molecular and polymeric organic materials have been proposed for a number of applications, such as displays1,2,3 and radio-frequency identification tags4,5,6. The main factors motivating investigations of organic transistors are their lower cost and simpler packaging, relative to conventional inorganic electronics, and their compatibility with flexible substrates7,8. In most digital circuitry, minimal power dissipation and stability of performance against transistor parameter variations are crucial. In silicon-based microelectronics, these are achieved through the use of complementary logic—which incorporates both p- and n-type transistors—and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that adoption of such an approach with organic semiconductors will similarly result in reduced power dissipation, improved noise margins and greater operational stability. Complementary inverters and ring oscillators have already been reported9,10. Here we show that such an approach can realize much larger scales of integration (in the present case, up to 864 transistors per circuit) and operation speeds of ∼1 kHz in clocked sequential complementary circuits.

Date: 2000
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/35000530 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:403:y:2000:i:6769:d:10.1038_35000530

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/35000530

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().