Organic and Amorphous-Metal-Oxide Flexible Analogue Electronics
Elements in Flexible and Large-Area Electronics Series

Recent years have witnessed significant research efforts in flexible organic and amorphous-metal-oxide analogue electronics, in view of its formidable potential for applications such as smart sensor systems. This Element provides a comprehensive overview of this growing research area. After discussing the properties of organic and amorphous-metal-oxide technologies relevant to analogue circuits, this Element focuses on their application to two key circuit blocks: amplifiers and analogue-to-digital converters. The Element thus provides a fresh look at the evolution and immediate opportunities of the field, and identifies the remaining challenges for these technologies to become the platform of choice for flexible analogue electronics.

1. Introduction; 2. Organic and amorphous-metal-oxide thin-film transistors; 3. Flexible analogue amplifiers; 4. Circuit techniques and architectures for analogue-to-digital converters; 5. Conclusions; 6. References.