Design of analog and digital building blocks in a fully printed complementary organic technology

Author

Abdinia, S. ; Benwadih, M. ; Cantatore, E. ; Chartier, I. ; Jacob, S. ; Maddiona, L. ; Maiellaro, G. ; Mariucci, L. ; Palmisano, G. ; Rapisarda, M. ; Tramontana, F. ; van Roermund, A.H.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2012

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

145

Lastpage

148

Abstract

The paper presents several analog and digital building blocks designed using OTFT devices manufactured in a fully-printed complementary organic technology. Circuit performance and parametric variability are simulated based on a model developed specifically for this technology. Fully-static logic gates and flip-flops as well as a low-area dynamic flip-flop enabled by the use of complementary OTFTs are measured, showing good agreement with simulations. A comparator exploiting offset cancellation techniques achieves a measured offset of less than 200mV. In addition, small-sized envelope detectors are measured at the HF RFID frequency (13.56MHz), to demonstrate the high frequency performance of the OTFTs. All these circuits are building blocks for the realization of a printed RFID tag.

Keywords

comparators (circuits); flip-flops; logic design; logic gates; organic semiconductors; radiofrequency identification; semiconductor thin films; HF RFID frequency; OTFT devices; analog building blocks building blocks; circuit performance; comparator; complementary OTFT; digital building blocks; frequency 13.56 MHz; fully-printed complementary organic technology; fully-static logic gates; high frequency performance; low-area dynamic flip-flop; offset cancellation techniques; parametric variability; printed RFID tag; small-sized envelope detectors; Flip-flops; Integrated circuit modeling; Logic gates; Organic thin film transistors; Radiofrequency identification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ESSCIRC (ESSCIRC), 2012 Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Bordeaux

ISSN

1930-8833

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2212-6

Electronic_ISBN

1930-8833

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSCIRC.2012.6341310

Filename

6341310