TY - GEN
T1 - Process design kit and design automation for flexible hybrid electronics
AU - Huang, Tsung Ching
AU - Lei, Ting
AU - Shao, Leilai
AU - Sivapurapu, Sridhar
AU - Swaminathan, Madhavan
AU - Li, Sicheng
AU - Bao, Zhenan
AU - Cheng, Kwang Ting
AU - Beausoleil, Raymond
N1 - Funding Information:
VI. ACKNOWLEDGMENT This material is based, in part, on research sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory under agreement number FA8650-15-2-5401, as conducted through the flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing innovation institute, NextFlex. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation thereon. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies or endorsements, either expressed or implied, of Air Force Research Laboratory or the U.S. Government.
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PY - 2019/4
Y1 - 2019/4
N2 - High-performance low-cost flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) are desirable for applications such as internet of things (IoT) and wearable electronics. Carbon-nanotube (CNT) thin-film transistor (TFT) is a promising candidate for high-performance FHE, because of its high carrier mobility, superior mechanical flexibility, and material compatibility with low-cost printing and solution-processes. Flexible sensors and peripheral CNT-TFT circuits, such as decoders, drivers and sense amplifiers, can be printed and hybrid-integrated with thinned (<50μm) silicon chips on soft, thin, and flexible substrates for a wide range of applications from flexible displays to wearable medical devices. Here we report: 1) process design kit (PDK) to enable FHE design automation for large-scale FHE circuits, and 2) solution-process proven intellectual property (IP) blocks for TFT circuits design, including Pseudo-CMOS [1] flexible digital logic and analog amplifiers shown in Figure 1.
AB - High-performance low-cost flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) are desirable for applications such as internet of things (IoT) and wearable electronics. Carbon-nanotube (CNT) thin-film transistor (TFT) is a promising candidate for high-performance FHE, because of its high carrier mobility, superior mechanical flexibility, and material compatibility with low-cost printing and solution-processes. Flexible sensors and peripheral CNT-TFT circuits, such as decoders, drivers and sense amplifiers, can be printed and hybrid-integrated with thinned (<50μm) silicon chips on soft, thin, and flexible substrates for a wide range of applications from flexible displays to wearable medical devices. Here we report: 1) process design kit (PDK) to enable FHE design automation for large-scale FHE circuits, and 2) solution-process proven intellectual property (IP) blocks for TFT circuits design, including Pseudo-CMOS [1] flexible digital logic and analog amplifiers shown in Figure 1.
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U2 - 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2019.8741745
DO - 10.1109/VLSI-DAT.2019.8741745
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85068620958
T3 - 2019 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, VLSI-DAT 2019
BT - 2019 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, VLSI-DAT 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2019 International Symposium on VLSI Design, Automation and Test, VLSI-DAT 2019
Y2 - 22 April 2019 through 25 April 2019
ER -