Thin-Film Transistors

Cherie R. Kagan is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. The author or coauthor of more than 15 professional publications and holder of four patents with four pending, she is a member of the Materials Research Society, the American Chemical Society, and the American Physical Society. Dr. Kagan received the B.S.E. degree (1991) in materials science and engineering and the B.A. degree (1991) in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the Ph.D. degree (1996) in electronic materials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. Paul Andry is Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. The author or coauthor of more than 20 professional publications and the holder of two patents with eight pending, he is a member of the Materials Research Society and the Society for Information Display. Dr. Andry received the B.Sc. degree (1986) in physics from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, the M.Sc. degree (1990) in physics from the Universite de Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, and the Ph.D. degree (1997) in materials science from the University of Vermont, Burlington.

Preface, Part I - The Development of and Advances in Amorphous and Polycrystalline Si Materials and Devices, 1. Thin-Film Transistors -A Historical Perspective, 2. Preparation and Properties of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Transistors, 3. Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Transistors, 4. Technology of Polysilicon Thin-Film Transistors, 5. Thin-Film Transistors in Active-Matrix Liquid Crystal Displays (AMLCDs), Part II - The Emergence of Alternative Organic Semiconductors and Devices, 6. Organic-Based Thin-Film Transistors, 7. Vacuum-Deposited Organic Thin-Film Field-Effect Transistors Based on Small Molecules, 8. Organic Transistors: Materials, Patterning Techniques and Applications, 9. Polymer Transistor Circuits Fabricated by Solution Processing and Direct Printing, 10. Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Thin-Film Transistors, Index