Inkjet-Configurable Gate Array: Towards Application Specific Printed Electronic Circuits

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by  Mohammad Mashayekhi (auth.)

Springer Theses
Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research
Mohammad Mashayekhi

Inkjet-Configurable
Gate Array
Towards Application Specific Printed
Electronic Circuits
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Mohammad Mashayekhi
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Inkjet-Con gurable Gate
Array
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Towards Application Speci c Printed
Electronic Circuits
Doctoral Thesis accepted by
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
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Author Supervisors
Dr. Mohammad Mashayekhi Dr. Jordi CarrabinaBordoll
Universitat Autònoma deBarcelona(UAB) Universitat Autònoma deBarcelona(UAB)
Barcelona Barcelona
Spain Spain
Dr. Lluís TerésTerés
IMB-CNM (CSIC)
Universitat Autònoma deBarcelona(UAB)
Barcelona
Spain
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Supervisors Foreword
It is our pleasure to present Dr. Mohammad Mashayekhi’s Ph.D. thesis work,
“Inkjet-Configurable Gate-Array: Towards Application Specific Printed Electronic
Circuits”,foritspublicationinSpringerThesesseriesasanoriginalandoutstanding
research work and document.
Earlyin2013Dr.MohammadMashayekhijoinedourresearchgroupCEPHISat
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and ICAS at Instituto de
Microelectrónica de Barcelona IMB-CNM(CSIC), funded by a UAB PIF grant to
address his Ph.D. degree in the domain of emerging “printed micro-electronics”
technologies. He was successfully working along two years within the framework
of the FP7 European project “TDK4PE: Technology and Design Kits for Printed
Electronics” (http://www.cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/100095_en.html) developing
a large number of devices, structures for design rules, cells and circuits with
fault-tolerant capabilities for digital circuits using low resolution Inkjet printing.
Later,weestablishedaresearchcollaborationthroughtheCOLAEFP7projectwith
otherinternationalgroupslikeCPI(https://www.uk-cpi.com)andNeuDrive(http://
www.neudrive.com/)inUKwhereMohammadappliedsimilarconceptsforcircuit
personalization on high resolution printed circuits implemented using photolitho-
graphic technology. The customization was implemented with digital printing:
inkjet, Super fine InkJet (SIJ), aerosol and ElectroHydroDynamic jet printing
(EHD). The complete work includes Design and Characterization of organic thin
film transistors (OTFTs) with different topologies; design of digital circuits based
on digital logic gates and configurable structures and static-dynamic characteriza-
tion of cells and circuits.
WealsoestablishedcooperationwithDepartmentofElectronicsandCommuni-
cations Engineering at Tampere University of Technology (http://www.tut.fi/en/
research/research-fields/electronics-and-communications-engineering/index.htm) in
Finland, the group of Flexible Printed Electronics at University of California San
Diego (http://flexible-electronics.ucsd.edu/) and the Group of Thin Film and
Surface Engineering at Universitat de Barcelona (http://www.ub.edu/gcfes/index_
en.htm),tousetheirdigitalprintingfacilities(SIJ,EHDandLaserInducedForward
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Transfer—LIFT) for metallization of configurable structures to customize specific
circuits such as proposed Inkjet-Configurable Gate Arrays (IGAs).
Other interuniversity and research collaborations at national-international level
supported by UAB research group have been conducted by Dr. Mashayekhi:
Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona IMB-CNM (CSIC), Spain (http://www.
imb-cnm.csic.es/);FederalUniversityofRioGrandedoSul(UFRGS),Brazil(http://
www.ufrgs.br/); Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC), Germany (https://
www.tu-chemnitz.de/) and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (http://deeea.urv.cat/deeea/
index.php/es/).AlsosomeotherindustrycollaborationslikeSIJTechnology,Japan
(http://www.sijtechnology.com/en/) and Phoenix Software, Netherlands (http://
www.phoenixbv.com/index.php) havebeenaddressed along the related period.
Mohammad has been working in Process Design Kit (PDK) development for
printed electronics technologies, OTFT process refinement, and design & fabrica-
tion of OTFT-based electronic circuits; while gaining experience in ASIC circuit
design methodologies, design automation and related EDA/CAD tools to address
the new “Application Specific Printed-Electronics Circuits” (ASPEC) concept.
Based on the accumulated knowledge, he strongly contributed to the development
of the concept and structures of IGA (Inkjet Gate Array), generated within the
UAB/CSIC research group. The development of IGA concept itself and the dif-
ferent techniques and technologies to customize the connections among the arrays
ofOTFTs,alreadyprefabricatedintheflexiblebulksubstrate,inordertoimplement
ASPECs has been the core of his Ph.D. and collects the most important contribu-
tionsofhiswork;whicharereportedanddetailedalongthisPh.D.reportasanew
book in Springer Theses series.
Thus, the dissertation of Dr. Mashayekhi includes significant original scientific
contributions, and represents a considerable advance in the field of semi-custom
printed-microelectronics and most of them have been already published in high
relevant journals (5) and conferences (12) and applied or obtained from his par-
ticipationondifferentresearchprojects(2Internationaland3national).References
related to these publications can be found in next section devoted to identify the
parts of this thesis already published.
We would like to emphasize the comprehensiveness of the work accomplished
byDr.Mashayekhi,setwithinmultidisciplinaryresearchtobring,forthefirsttime,
not only the IGA concept, but also its materialization and customization with
different printed-microelectronics technologies.
Barcelona, Spain Dr. Jordi Carrabina Bordoll
July 2017
Dr. Lluís Terés Terés
Part of this thesis has been published in the following articles:
Peer-reviewed Journals
1. M. Mashayekhi, L. Winchester, M.-M. Laurila, M. Mäntysalo, S. Ogier,
L. Terés, J. Carrabina, “Chip-by-Chip Configurable Interconnection using
DigitalPrintingTechniques”,ournalofMicromechanicsandMicroengineering,
IOP Publishing, vol. 27, Issue 4, pp. 045009, 2017, Impact factor: 1.794
2. M. Mashayekhi, L. Winchester, L. Evans, T. Pease, M.-M. laurila,
M. Mäntysalo, S. Ogier, L. Terés, and J. Carrabina, “Evaluation of aerosol,
superfine inkjet, and photolithography printing techniques for metallization of
application specific printed electronic circuits”, IEEE Transactions of Electron
Devices, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 1246–1253, 2016, Impact factor: 2.207
3. J. Carrabina, M. Mashayekhi, J. Pallarès, L. Terés, “Inkjet-configurable Gate
Arrays (IGA)”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Early
access, vol. PP, Issue 99, pp. 1–1, 2016. Impact factor: 3.19
4. M. Mashayekhi, A. Conde, T. Ng, P. Mei, E. Ramon, C. Martinez-Domingo,
A. Alcalde, L. Terés, J. Carrabina, “Inkjet printing design rules formalization
and improvement”, IEEE Journal of Display Technology, vol. 11, Issue 8,
pp. 658–665. 2015, Impact factor: 1.925
5. M. Llamas, M. Mashayekhi, A. Alcalde, J. Pallarès, F. Vila, A. Conde,
J. Carrabina, L. Terés, “Development of Digital Application Specific Printed
Electronics Circuits: From Specification to Final Prototypes”, IEEE Journal of
Display Technology, vol. 11, Issue 8, pp. 652–657. 2015, Impact factor: 1.925
Conference Presentations and Posters
1. M. Mashayekhi, S. Ogier, T. Pease, L. Terés, J. Carrabina, “Comparison of
design styles for top-gate bottom-contact OTFTs”, Proceedings of Conference
on Design of Circuits and Integrated Systems (DCIS)—IEEE Conference
publications, Nov. 2015, Lisbon, Portugal.
2. M. Mashayekhi, M. Llamas, J. Pallarès, F. Vila, L. Terés, J. Carrabina,
“Development of a standard cell library and ASPEC design flow for Organic
Thin Film Transistor technology”, Proceedings of Conference on Design of
CircuitsandIntegrated Systems (DCIS)—IEEEConferencepublications,Nov.
2014, Madrid, Spain.
3. M. Mashayekhi, M. Llamas, C. Martinez-Domingo, E. Ramon, J. Pallarès,
F. Vila, A. Conde, L. Terés, J. Carrabina, “Formalization of design rules and
generation of related structures using pcells”, LOPEC Conference, 2014,
Munich, Germany.
4. M. Mashayekhi, M. Llamas, J. Pallarès, F. Vila, L. Terés, J. Carrabina,
“Technology-independent Fault-tolerant Gate Array in Printed Electronics”,
InternationalConferenceonComputerAidedDesignforThin-FilmTransistors
—CADTFT, 2014, China.
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5. S. Ogier, M. Simms, M.Mashayekhi, L. Terés, J.Carrabina, “0.5MHz 5stage
ring oscillator circuits and low cost customization technologies for organic
logic devices”, Innovations in Large-Area Electronics Conference, Feb. 2016,
Robinson College, cambridge, UK.
6. J. Carrabina, M. Mashayekhi, M. Llamas, T. Pease, M.-M. laurila,
M. Mäntysalo, S. Ogier, L. Terés, “Customization technology and tols for
building printed circuits”, Proceedings of 6th International conference on
Flexible and Printed Electronics—ICFPE, 2015, Taipei, Taiwan.
7. M.Llamas, M.Mashayekhi, J.Matos,A.Reis,J.Carrabina, “Optimizationon
cell-librarydesignfordigitalApplicationSpecificPrintedElectronicsCircuits”,
Proceedings of International Workshop on Power and Timing Modeling,
Optimization and Simulation (PATMOS), 2014, Spain.
8. M. Llamas, M. Mashayekhi, J. Pallarès, F. Vila, L. Terés, J. Carrabina,
“A novel ASPEC design flow”, International Conference on Computer Aided
Design for Thin-Film Transistors—CADTFT, 2014, China.
9. M. Llamas, M. Mashayekhi, J. Pallarès, F. Vila, J. Carrabina, L. Terés,
“Top-down design flow for application specific printed electronics circuits
(ASPECs)”, Proceedings of Conference on Design of Circuits and Integrated
Systems (DCIS)—IEEE Conference publications, Nov. 2014, Madrid, Spain.
10. M. Llamas, M. Mashayekhi, J. Matos, A. Reis, J. Carrabina, “Technology
mapping tools for building optimal circuits”, LOPEC Conference, 2015,
Munich, Germany.