A flexible, lightweight Braille sheet display with plastic actuators driven by an organic field-effect transistor active matrix

Author

Kato, Yusaku ; Iba, Shingo ; Sekitani, Tsuyoshi ; Noguchi, Yoshiaki ; Hizu, Kazuki ; Wang, Xizhang ; Takenoshita, Kenji ; Takamatsu, Yasushi ; Nakano, Shintaro ; Fukuda, Kenjiro ; Nakamura, Kosuke ; Yamaue, Tatsuya ; Doi, Masao ; Asaka, Kinji ; Kawaguchi,

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Tokyo Univ.

fYear

2005

fDate

5-5 Dec. 2005

Lastpage

100

Abstract

A flexible, shock-resistant, and lightweight Braille sheet display has been successfully manufactured on a plastic film by integrating a plastic sheet actuator array with a high-quality organic transistor active matrix. This is the first demonstration, to the best of our knowledge, to integrate plastic MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) actuators with organic transistor active matrices, which opens up new versatile possibilities for flexible, large-area electronic applications including tactile displays

Keywords

field effect transistors; handicapped aids; microactuators; polymer films; Braille sheet display; MEMS actuators; microactuators; microelectromechanical systems; organic field-effect transistor active matrix; organic transistor active matrix; plastic actuators; plastic film; plastic sheet actuator array; tactile displays; Active matrix organic light emitting diodes; Actuators; Circuits; Displays; FETs; Manufacturing; Micromechanical devices; OFETs; Pentacene; Plastic films;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electron Devices Meeting, 2005. IEDM Technical Digest. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9268-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEDM.2005.1609277

Filename

1609277