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An Approach to Simultaneously Test Multiple Devices for High-Throughput Production of Thin-Film Electronics


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Authors

Kumar, A 
Flewitt, AJ 

Abstract

New generation of thin-film transistors (TFTs), where the active material is amorphous oxide, conjugated polymer, or small molecules, have the advantage of flexibility, high form factor, and large scale manufacturability through low cost processing techniques, e.g., roll-to-roll printing, screen printing. During high-throughput production using these techniques, the probability of defects being present increases with the speed of manufacturing and area of devices. Therefore a high-throughput and low cost testing technique is absolute essential to maintain high quality of final product. We report a Simultaneous Multiple Device Testing (SMuDT) approach which is up to 10 times faster and cost effective than conventional testing methods. The SMuDT approach was validated using circuit simulation and demonstrated by testing large scale indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) TFTs. A method to ‘bin’ the tested devices using Figure of Merit was established.

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Keywords

Circuit simulation, flexible circuits and display, high-throughput electrical testing, IGZO thin-film transistors (TFTs)

Journal Title

Journal of Display Technology

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Journal ISSN

1551-319X
1558-9323

Volume Title

12

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K03099X/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L505201/1)
The authors acknowledge the support of this project provided by the EPSRC and Innovate UK through the AUTOFLEX Project (grant no. EP/L505201/1) and CIMLAE Project (EP/K03099X/1). AK and AJF would like to thank PragmatIC Printing Ltd. for wafer samples. Additional data related to this publication which is not of a commercially sensitive nature is available at the DSpace@Cambridge data repository (www.repository.cam.ac.uk).