3. Transparent electronics is an emerging
science and technology that concentrates on
producing transparent electronic circuits.
The application contains consumer
electronics such as automobile windshield,
transparent solar panel, transparent display
etc.
The goal is to create an invisible circuitry
with materials that are optically transparent
and electrically conductive.
4. The transparent electronics were pioneered
at the Oregon state university. Researchers
of the Oregon State University confirmed
that zinc tin oxide, an inexpensive and
environmentally benign component can
provide a new transparent technology where
computer memory would be based on
resistance instead of electron charge.
The products that use resistive random
access memory(RRAM) OR memristor could
become even smaller an faster.
5. Transparent conductors are neither 100%
optically transparent nor metallically
conductive.
a transparent material is an insulator which
possesses completely filled valence and
empty conduction bands.
Whereas metallic conductivity appears when
the Fermi level lies within a band with a
large density of states to provide high
6.
7. SnO2, ZnO and CdO are the commonly used
oxides.
These TCO hosts must be degenerately
doped to displace the Fermi level up into the
conduction band.
ZnO films have been prepared by doping
with Group III (Al, Ga, In and B), Group IV
(Si, Ge, Ti, Zr and Hf) and a Group VII
element (F substituted at an oxygen site),
8. Degenerate doping provides
(i) the high mobility of extra carriers
(electrons)
(ii) low optical absorption due to the low
density of states in the conduction band.
Removal of oxygen.
9. Transparent conducting oxides
They are electrically conductive
materials with low absorption of light.
The transparent oxides have high
transparency through the visible
spectrum.
It is a compromise between electrical
conductivity and optical transparency.
10.
11. The Burstein–Moss
effect is the
phenomenon of which
the apparent band
gap of a
semiconductor is
increased as the
absorption edge is
pushed to higher
energies as a result
of all states close to
the conduction band
being populated.
14. A thin film transistor is a special
kind transistor that is formed by
depositing thin films of an active
semiconductor layer as well as
dielectric layer and metallic
contacts over a supporting
substrate (usually non conducting
[glass]).
15.
16. They operate at relatively low frequency.
They exhibit linear or near linear
characteristics.
The parasitic capacitance is minimum.
17. A film capacitor is a capacitor that uses a
thin film as the dielectric.
They are relatively cheap, stable over time
and have low self inductance.
Large capacitance density is desired to
minimize the size of the capacitor. Hence
materials with high dielectric constants are
the best.
18.
19. Expected to behave in a non-ideal
manner.
The main reason for this
characteristics is,
The relatively poor conductance of
TCOs compared to metals, TTFIs will
possess a significant amount of
parasitic resistance.
20.
21.
22. Apple Inc.
Cambrios technology corp.
Corning Inc.
3M Co.
Saint Cobain SA.
Samsung electronics Co. Ltd.
Dontech Inc.
23.
24. Visible transparency
Low cost (solution based
deposition and printing).
Low temperature processing.
Robust, stable inorganic
materials.
Safe and non toxic materials.
25. High resistance of TCOs
Low frequency of
operation(Khz to few Mhz)
transparent electronics
cannot be realized in Si
technology.
31. Transparent electronics is a
boon to the technology
This will help in the development
of flexible non breakable
materials.
Holds the key for many future
advancements in efficient usage
of energy.