Science Daily April 24, 2024 Thin film transistor fabrication (TFT) is currently lacking a fully verified, universal design approach. This increases the cost and complexity of manufacturing TFT-based flexible electronics, slowing down their integration into more mature applications and limiting the design complexity achievable by foundries. Researchers in Belgium developed a stable and high-yield TFT platform for the fabless manufacturing of two mainstream TFT technologies, wafer-based amorphous indium–gallium–zinc oxide and panel-based low-temperature polycrystalline silicon, two key TFT technologies applicable to flexible substrates. They designed the 6502 microprocessor in both technologies to demonstrate and expand the multi-project wafer approach. Enabling the […]
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Researchers discover new process to create freestanding membranes of ‘smart’ materials
Phys.org January 3, 2023 The aggressive oxidizing conditions typically used in growing epitaxial oxides can damage graphene. A team of researchers in the US (University of Minnesota, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Wisconsin) used hybrid molecular beam epitaxy for SrTiO3 growth that did not require an independent oxygen source, thus avoided graphene damage. They produced epitaxial films with self-regulating cation stoichiometry. The film could be exfoliated and transferred to foreign substrates. The results opened the door to future studies of previously unattainable freestanding oxide nanomembranes grown in an adsorption-controlled manner by hybrid molecular beam epitaxy. According to the researchers […]