Thin Film Transistor Circuits and Systems

Providing a reliable and consolidated treatment of the principles behind large-area electronics, this book provides a comprehensive review of the design challenges associated with building circuits and systems from thin-film transistors. The authors describe the architecture, fabrication and design considerations for the principal types of TFT and their numerous applications. The practicalities of device non-ideality are also addressed and the specific design considerations necessitated by instabilities and non-uniformities in existing fabrication technologies. Containing device-circuit information, discussion of electronic solutions that compensate for material deficiencies, and design methodologies applicable to a wide variety of organic and inorganic disordered materials, this is an essential reference for all researchers, circuit and device engineers working on large-area electronics.

1. Introduction to displays, flat panel imagers, and associated backplane technologies; 2. Design specifications and considerations addressing compensation and driving schemes; 3. Hybrid voltage-current programming; 4. Enhanced-settling current programming; 5. Charge-based driving schemes; 6. High resolution architectures.

Reza Chaji is the Chief Technology Officer at Ignis Innovation Inc., managing programmes for the development of low-cost, high-yield and low-power AMOLED displays. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada and has been awarded the CMC Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence.
Arokia Nathan is the Chair of Photonic Systems and Displays at the University of Cambridge, former Sumitomo Chair of Nanotechnology at the London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London and the Canada Research Chair, University of Waterloo. The founder or co-founder of several companies, he is also a Fellow of the IEEE and the IET and an IEEE/EDS Distinguished Lecturer.