Organic electronics: Material aspects, devices and microelectronic applications

Due to their superior mechanical properties and the cost advantage associated with their processing, organic thin-film transistors can be viewed as an important technology for a broad range of applications spanning from optical displays, microelectronics to optical, chemical, and biological sensors. There is no doubt that, as the technology matures the number of applications will keep increasing with the possibility of OTFTs becoming a key technology in product innovation. Starting from a short overview of organic thin-film transistors research, this paper will concentrate on the recent developments in organic circuit design and on how the state of the art in this field can be further advanced with contributions from materials and processing research.