Design of Organic Complementary Circuits and Systems on Foil

132 Pages·2015·6.476 MB·English

by  Sahel Abdinia, Arthur van Roermund, Eugenio Cantatore (auth.)

ACSP · Analog Circuits And Signal Processing
Sahel Abdinia
Arthur H.M. van Roermund
Eugenio Cantatore
Design of
Organic
Complementary
Circuits and
Systems on Foil
Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
Series editors
Mohammed Ismail
Mohamad Sawan
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Sahel Abdinia

Arthur H.M. van Roermund
Eugenio Cantatore
Design of Organic
Complementary Circuits
and Systems on Foil
Sahel Abdinia Arthur H.M. van Roermund
Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven , The Netherlands Eindhoven , The Netherlands
Eugenio Cantatore
Department of Electrical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
Eindhoven , The Netherlands
ISSN 1872-082X ISSN 2197-1854 (electronic)
Analog Circuits and Signal Processing
ISBN 978-3-319-21187-9 ISBN 978-3-319-21188-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-21188-6
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Acknowledgements
T he work published in this book was funded in the frame of the European FP7 proj-
ect COSMIC (grant agreement no 247681). The authors would like to thank all the
partners involved in COSMIC for their contributions, including imec/TNO (Leuven,
Belgium), CEA-Liten (Grenoble, France), ST-Microelectronics (Catania, Italy),
Catania University (Catania, Italy), and in particular, Jan Genoe, Gerwin Gelinck,
Kris Myny, T-H Ke from imec/TNO and Isabell Chartier, Stephanie Jacob, Romain
Coppard, and Romain Gwoziecki from CEA-Liten.
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Contents
1 Introduction ............................................................................................... 1
1.1 Organic Circuits: State of the Art ...................................................... 2
1.1.1 Implemented Applications ..................................................... 2
1.1.2 Challenges and Progress ........................................................ 5
1.2 Role of Complementary Technologies ............................................... 6
1.3 Contributions of This Book................................................................ 7
References ................................................................................................... 9
Part I Complementary OTFT Technology, Modelling,
and Building-Block Design
2 Complementary OTFT Technology ......................................................... 15
2.1 Introduction ........................................................................................ 15
2.2 Sheet-to-Sheet (S2S) Fabrication Process ......................................... 16
2.2.1 S2S General Process Flow ..................................................... 16
2.2.2 Differences Between Gen.1 and Gen.2 Flows ....................... 17
2.2.3 Typical Layout Rules ............................................................. 19
2.3 Wafer-to-Wafer (W2W) Fabrication Process ..................................... 20
2.3.1 Process Flow .......................................................................... 20
2.3.2 Typical Layout Rules ............................................................. 23
2.4 Highlights of the S2S and W2W Technologies ................................. 23
References ................................................................................................... 24
3 OTFT Modelling and Characteristics ..................................................... 27
3.1 Introduction ........................................................................................ 27
3.2 OTFT Operation and Performance .................................................... 28
3.3 Modelling of S2S OTFTs ................................................................... 30
3.3.1 OTFT Model for Gen.1 .......................................................... 32
3.3.2 OTFT Model for Gen.2 .......................................................... 36
3.4 Modelling of W2W OTFTs ................................................................ 40
3.5 Highlights of the S2S and W2W OTFT Characteristics .................... 43
References ................................................................................................... 44
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4 Digital Circuit Design ............................................................................... 47
4.1 Introduction ........................................................................................ 47
4.2 Digital Design in S2S Technology ..................................................... 48
4.2.1 Fully Static Blocks ................................................................. 49
4.2.2 Transmission-Gate (TG) Blocks ............................................ 55
4.2.3 Dynamic Blocks ..................................................................... 57
4.2.4 Logic Style Selection ............................................................. 59
4.3 Digital Design in W2W Technology .................................................. 60
4.3.1 Fully Static Blocks ................................................................. 61
4.3.2 Transmission-Gate Blocks ..................................................... 63
4.3.3 Logic Style Selection ............................................................. 63
4.4 Digital Design Highlights .................................................................. 65
References ................................................................................................... 66
5 Analogue and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design ........................................... 69
5.1 Introduction ........................................................................................ 69
5.2 Analogue Design in S2S Technology ................................................ 70
5.2.1 OTAs ...................................................................................... 71
5.2.2 Comparators ........................................................................... 73
5.2.3 DAC ....................................................................................... 79
5.2.4 Rectifi ers ................................................................................ 81
5.2.5 AM Demodulator ................................................................... 87
5.3 W2W OTA ......................................................................................... 89
5.4 Analogue Design Highlights .............................................................. 90
References ................................................................................................... 90
Part II Implemented Systems-on-Foil
6 Display Driver ........................................................................................... 95
6.1 Introduction ........................................................................................ 95
6.2 Line Driver Circuit ............................................................................. 96
6.3 System Test ........................................................................................ 97
6.4 Highlights ........................................................................................... 98
References ................................................................................................... 99
7 Temperature Monitor ............................................................................... 101
7.1 Introduction ........................................................................................ 101
7.2 ADC ................................................................................................... 102
7.3 Sensor ................................................................................................. 106
7.4 System Test ........................................................................................ 109
7.5 Highlights ........................................................................................... 111
References ................................................................................................... 111
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8 RFID Tag ................................................................................................... 113
8.1 Introduction ........................................................................................ 113
8.2 RFID Circuits ..................................................................................... 114
8.2.1 Front End ............................................................................... 114
8.2.2 Code-Recognition Unit .......................................................... 117
8.3 Test System Schemes ......................................................................... 118
8.4 Highlights ........................................................................................... 120
References ................................................................................................... 121
9 Conclusions ................................................................................................ 123
References ................................................................................................... 126
Glossary ........................................................................................................... 127