A team of researchers in Japan has developed a new inkjet based printing technique for making single crystal thin-film transistors.
Scientists at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba developed the process, which combines a semiconductor ink and a crystallization ink into one. The method produces exceptionally uniform, single-crystal or polycrystalline thin films that grow at the liquid-air interface on a substrate, According to a report by Physics World.
The team, which includes researchers from the University of Tokyo and KEK in Tsukuba, now plans to optimize its equipment and device-processing techniques, and look at producing printed electric products.
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Physics World report
Inkjet printing produces high-performance transistors
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