Amorphous silicon 7 bit digital to analog converter on PEN

Author

Dey, Aritra ; Song, Hongjiang ; Ahmed, Tofayel ; Venugopal, Sameer M. ; Allee, David R.

Author_Institution

Flexible Display Center (FDC), Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

19-22 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A 7-bit switched capacitor D/A converter (DAC) is built using only n-channel amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin film transistors (TFT) and capacitors. The circuit is built on both plastic and glass using a low temperature process, compatible with flexible plastic substrates. The measurements show excellent characteristics, achieving a DNL of less than ±0.6 LSB and INL of less than ±1 LSB without calibration, at a conversion rate of 500 Hz.

Keywords

amorphous semiconductors; capacitors; digital-analogue conversion; elemental semiconductors; silicon; thin film transistors; 7-bit switched capacitor D/A converter; DAC; PEN; TFT; digital to analog converter; flexible plastic substrate; frequency 500 Hz; low temperature process; n-channel amorphous silicon; polyethylene napthalate; thin film transistor; word length 7 bit; Capacitors; Resistors; Semiconductor device measurement; Silicon compounds; Substrates; Switches; Thin film transistors; DAC; DNL; INL; PECVD; PEN; a-Si:H;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

ISSN

0886-5930

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5758-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2010.5617385

Filename

5617385