Low-temperature formation of silicon and silicon oxide structures

A method for low-temperature formation of a silicon/silicon-oxide structure on a substrate is described wherein the method comprises: forming a first (poly)silane layer over at least part of a substrate; transforming said first (poly)silane layer directly into a (crystalline) silicon layer by exposing said first (poly)silane layer to UV...

Method of forming silicon on a substrate

A method for forming a silicon layer using a liquid silane compound is described wherein said method comprises the steps of forming a first layer on a substrate, preferably a flexible substrate, said first layer comprising a (poly)silane; and, irradiating said first light ight comprising one or more wavelength within the range between 200 and...

Single-Grain Si TFTs Fabricated on a Precursor from Doctor-Blade Coated Liquid-Si

Printing is attractive for manufacturing flexible circuits. This manuscript presents our investigation of single-grain Si TFTs fabricated from printed liquid-Si, on a polyimide substrate with the maximum process temperature of 350 °C. The field-effect mobility is 460 cm2/Vs for electrons and 121 cm2/Vs for the holes. CMOS inverters were also...

Single-grain Si thin-film transistors on flexible polyimide substrate fabricated from doctor-blade coated liquid-Si

Solution process of silicon will provide high-speed transistor fabrication with low-cost by, for example, roll-to-roll process. In this paper, a low-temperature process (350?°C) is reported for fabrication of high-quality Si devices on a polyimide substrate from doctor-blade coated liquid-Si. With this method, different semiconductor devices...

A Process for the Manufacture of a Semiconductor Device

A method for the manufacture of at least part of a thin-film device is described wherein, said method comprise: forming one or more indentations in a substrate, preferably a plastic substrate, an indentation comprising sidewalls and a base; filling at least one of said one or more indentations with a first ink, said first ink comprising a first...

Single-Grain Si TFTs Fabricated by Liquid-Si and Long-Pulse Excimer-Laser

Solution process of silicon using liquid-Si is attractive for fabrication of high-speed flexible electronics. We have fabricated single-grain Si TFTs on location-controlled Si grains with longpulse excimer laser crystallization of spin-coated liquid Si film. The maximum grain diameter is 3.5?m, and the mobilities for electrons and holes are...

Single-grain Si TFTs fabricated by liquid-Si and longpulse excimer-laser (abstract)

Single-grain Si TFTs for high-speed flexible electronics

Existent flat-panel display is mechanically stiff because it requires external connection of IC chips. At its present stage, displays with a-Si, metal oxide semiconductor or organic TFTs require still external connection of data driver and controllers, because of their low carrier mobilities. We will review our recent progress on direct...