Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Uncover Insights From Breast Cancer Patients' Perceptions to Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Interventions.

The study's central objective is to harness the power of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular based on Large Language Models, as a valuable resource for delving deeper into the insights offered by patients with breast cancer (BC) who actively participated in a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program. In a 6-week MBSR program, each session lasted 2 hours and encompassed a range of techniques, including sitting meditation, body scan, Hatha yoga, and walking meditation. A total of 25 participants were enrolled in the study. The majority of these participants reported a high level of satisfaction with the mindfulness course. The application of generative AI enabled a comprehensive analysis of the participants' responses, revealing distinct subgroups among them. The MBSR program was found to be beneficial for most participants, serving as a valuable tool in managing the psychological stresses associated with BC.

High-mobility and low subthreshold swing amorphous InGaZnO thin-film transistors byin situH2plasma and neutral oxygen beam irradiation treatment.

In this work, staggered bottom-gate structure amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (a-IGZO) thin film transistors (TFTs) with high-k ZrO2gate dielectric were fabricated using low-cost atmospheric pressure-plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (AP-PECVD) within situhydrogenation to modulate the carrier concentration and improve interface quality. Subsequently, a neutral oxygen beam irradiation (NOBI) technique is applied, demonstrating that a suitable NOBI treatment could successfully enhance electrical characteristics by reducing native defect states and minimize the trap density in the back channel. A reverse retrograde channel (RRGC) with ultra-high/low carrier concentration is also formed to prevent undesired off-state leakage current and achieve a very low subthreshold swing. The resulting a-IGZO TFTs exhibit excellent electrical characteristics, including a low subthreshold swing of 72 mV dec-1and high field-effect mobility of 35 cm2V-1s-1, due to conduction path passivation and stronger carrier confinement in the RRGC. The UV-vis spectroscopy shows optical transmittance above 90% in the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. The study confirms the H2plasma with NOBI-treated a-IGZO/ZrO2TFT is a promising candidate for transparent electronic device applications.

Role ofin-situhydrogen plasma treatment on gate bias stability and performance of a-IGZO thin-film transistors.

This work investigates the effect of anin situhydrogen plasma treatment on gate bias stability and performance of amorphous InGaZnO thin-film transistors (TFTs) deposited by using atmospheric-pressure PECVD. The H2plasma-treateda-IGZO channel has shown significant improvement in bias stress induced instability with a minuscule threshold voltage shift (ΔVth) of 0.31 and -0.17 V under positive gate bias stress (PBS) and negative gate bias stress (NBS), respectively. With the aid of the energy band diagram, the proposed work demonstrates the formation of negative species O2-and positive species H2O+in the backchannel under PBS and NBS in addition to ionized oxygen vacancy (Vo) defects ata-IGZO/ZrO2interfaces are the reason for gate bias instability which could be effectively suppressed within situH2plasma treatment. From the experimental result, it is observed that the electrical performance such as field-effect mobility (µFE), on-off current ratio (Ion/Ioff), and subthreshold swing improved significantly byin situH2plasma treatment with passivation of interface trap density and bulk trap defects.

Long-Term Trends and Predictors of Medical Resource Utilization and Medical Outcomes in Inguinal Hernia Repair: A Nationwide Cohort Study.

BACKGROUND: Few studies have comprehensively and systematically analyzed nationwide samples. This study purposed to explore temporal trends and predictors of medical resource utilization and medical outcomes in these patients to obtain data that can be used to improve healthcare policies and to support clinical and administrative decision-making. METHODS: This study used nationwide population data contained in the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database of Taiwan. The 14,970 inguinal hernia repair patients were enrolled in this study (age range, 18-100 years) from 1997 to 2013 in Taiwan. After temporal trends analysis of demographic characteristics, clinical characteristics, and institutional characteristics, predictors of postoperative medical resource utilization and medical outcomes were evaluated through multiple linear regression analysis and Cox regression analysis. RESULTS: The prevalence of inguinal hernia repair per 100,000 population significantly decreased from 195.38 in 1997 to 39.66 in 2013 (p < 0.05). Demographic characteristics, clinical characteristics, and institutional characteristics were significantly associated with postoperative medical resource utilization and medical outcomes (p < 0.05). Of these characteristics, both surgeon volume and hospital volume had the strongest association. CONCLUSIONS: The inguinal hernia repair prevalence rate gradually decreased during the study period. Demographic characteristics, clinical characteristics, and institutional characteristics had strong associations with postoperative medical resource utilization and medical outcomes. Furthermore, hospital volume and surgeon volume had the strongest associations with postoperative medical resource utilization and medical outcomes. Additionally, providing the education needed to make the most advantageous medical decisions would be a great service not only to patients and their families, but also to the general population.

The Ottawa subarachnoid hemorrhage clinical decision rule for classifying emergency department headache patients.

BACKGROUND: Subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is a serious cause of headaches. The Ottawa subarachnoid hemorrhage (OSAH) rule helps identify SAH in patients with acute nontraumatic headache with high sensitivity, but provides limited information for identifying other intracranial pathology (ICP). OBJECTIVES: To assess the performance of the OSAH rule in emergency department (ED) headache patients and evaluate its impact on the diagnosis of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) and other ICP. METHOD: We conducted a retrospective cohort study from January 2016 to March 2017. Patients with acute headache with onset within 14 days of the ED visit, were included. We excluded patients with head trauma that occurred in the previous 7 days, new onset of abnormal neurologic findings, or consciousness disturbance. According to the OSAH rule, patients with any included predictors required further investigation. RESULTS: Of 913 patients were included, 15 of them were diagnosed with SAH. The OSAH rule had 100% (95% CI, 78.2%-100%) sensitivity and 37.0% (95% CI, 33.8-40.2%) specificity for identifying SAH. Twenty-two cases were identified as SAH or ICH with 100% sensitivity (95% CI, 84.6%-100%) and 37.3% (95% CI, 34.1%-40.5%) specificity. As for non-hemorrhagic ICP, both the sensitivity and negative predictive values (NPV) decreased to 75.0% (95% CI, 53.3%-90.2%) and 98.2% (95% CI, 96.1%-99.3%), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The OSAH rule had 100% sensitivity and NPV for diagnosing SAH and ICH with acute headache. The sensitivity and specificity were lower for non-hemorrhagic ICP. The OSAH rule may be an effective tool to exclude acute ICH and SAH in our setting.

The Effect of Microwave Annealing of Reliability Characteristics on Amorphous IGZO Thin Film Transistors.

Amorphous oxide semiconductors (AOSs) are attracted much attention due to high mobility, low temperature deposition, flexible, transmission, and uniformity. The thin film transistors (TFTs) with a-IGZO thin film as active layer perform higher field-effect mobility (>10 cm²/V·S), larger Ion/Ioff ratio (106), smaller subthreshold swing and better stability against electrical stress. LaAlO3/ZrO2 is employed as gate electrode and gate dielectric layer for a-IGZO TFTs, under the premise that performance of a-IGZO TFTs without decreasing. Due to the good selectivity of energy transformation and rapid heating rate, microwave annealing is applied to improve the device reliability in the investigation. With adjusting the parameter of microwave annealing, the effect on reliability characteristics of a-IGZO TFTs is studied.

Investigation of Electrical Characteristics on LaAlO3/ZrO2/IGZO TFTs with Microwave Annealing.

Conventional thin film transistor suffered from high threshold voltage, poor subthreshold swing, and high operation voltage. These shortcomings make the traditional thin film transistor does not meet the needs with the high-performance, high-resolution, low temperature and energy conservation nowadays. Due to the good selectivity of energy transformation and rapid heating rate, microwave annealing is promising to replace conventional furnace annealing and applied in the investigation. LaAlO3/ZrO2 is employed as gate electrode and gate dielectric layer for a-IGZO TFTs, under the premise that performance of a-IGZO TFTs without decreasing. With adjusting the power/time of microwave annealing, the effect on electrical characteristics of a-IGZO TFTs is investigated.

Investigation of Electrical Characteristics on AP-PECVD Fabricated Amorphous IGZO TFTs with Hydrogen Plasma Treatment.

TFT panel production process can be divided into three kinds of technology. There have amorphous silicon (a-Si), low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) and amorphous IGZO (a-IGZO) oxide. Traditional amorphous silicon (a-Si) silicon has a lot of advantages such as good productivity, short process and low-cost. It also has a lot of shortcomings on these applications on TFTs such as photosensitivity, light degradation, and opacity, etc. The dispute of the material based on a-Si:H as an active layer in TFT is low field effect mobility (~1 cm²/V·S) (M. Shur and M. Hack, J. Appl. Phys. 55, 3831 (1984)), photo sensitivity (low band gap about 1.7 V) and high deposition temperature (~400 °C) (M. Shur, et al., J. Appl. Phys. 66, 3371 (1989); K. khakzar and E. H. Lueder, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices 39, 1438 (1992)). Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (IGZO) had attracted attention that compared with the conventional a-Si:H, in the past three years, a-IGZO thin film transistors is more popular which compared with the other oxide semiconductors, because of its larger Ion/Ioff ratio (>106, smaller subthreshold swing (SS), better field-effect mobility and better stability against electrical stress. Hydrogen plasma treatment is applied in improving a-IGZO TFTs active layer, which is fabricated by atmospheric pressure-plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (AP-PECVD), the electrical characteristics of a-IGZO TFTs is investigated.

Study of In-Situ Hydrogen Plasma Treatment on InGaZnO with Atmospheric Pressure-Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition.

In the past few years, thin film transistors have a wide range of applications on display technology, material selection and quality for its active layer is critical for device performance. Traditional amorphous silicon (a-Si) silicon has a lot of advantages such as good productivity, short process and low-cost. It also has a lot of shortcomings on these applications on TFTs such as photosensitivity, light degradation, and opacity, etc. The dispute of the material based on a-Si:H as an active layer in TFT is low field effect mobility (~1 cm²/V·S) (M. Shur and M. Hack, J. Appl. Phys. 55, 3831 (1984)), photo sensitivity (low band gap about 1.7 V) and high deposition temperature (~400 °C) (M. Shur, et al., J. Appl. Phys. 66, 3371 (1989); K. Khakzar and E. H. Lueder, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices 39, 1438 (1992)). Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (IGZO) had attracted attention that compared with the conventional a-Si:H, due to its good properties of simultaneously high/low conductivity with high visual transparency via doping level. Oxide-based semiconductors, such as ZnO (G. Adamopoulos, et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 133507-3 (2009); H.-C. Cheng, et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 90, 012113-3 (2007)) and IGZO (C. J. Chiu, et al., Electron Device Letters, IEEE 31, 1245 (2010); L. Linfeng and P. Junbiao, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 58, 1452 (2011)) have been reported for the active channel layer. These oxide-based materials offer good electrical properties and high transparency for thin film transistors, its high transmittance can be applied to fabricate the full transparent TFT on flexible substrate. With In-Situ hydrogen plasma treatment on a-IGZO produced by atmospheric pressure-plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (AP-PECVD), the material characteristics of a-IGZO is studied.

The effect of peer influence on the use of CT by emergency physicians for patients with headaches.

BACKGROUND: It is challenging for emergency physicians (EPs) to distinguish between patients with life-threatening and benign headaches. We examined the effect of peer influence on computed tomography use by EPs for patients with headache and evaluated the peer influence effect in EPs with different levels of risk tolerance. METHODS: We conducted a before- and after-retrospective case review, and administered the Risk-Taking subscale of the Jackson Personality Index to attending physicians. Each EP computed tomography (CT) use rate, patient number, and CT use, were e-mailed every two months to enhance EP team norm and establish a trend in behavior. RESULTS: Of the 665 (before intervention) and 669 (after intervention) patients with headache, 206 (31%) and 171 (25.6%) underwent brain CT scans, respectively. Decreased use of CT examination was found in the post-intervention group (OR = 0.758, 95% CI: 0.593-0.967), especially for most risk-tolerant physicians (OR = 0.530, 95% CI: 0.311-0.889). There was prolonged ED length of stay (LOS) in the pre-intervention group (OR = 51.52, 95% CI: 26.998-76.050). CONCLUSIONS: We observed that peer influence is an effective way to improve CT use rate and emergency department LOS for patients with isolated headache, especially for most risk-tolerant physicians. These findings could enhance the development of appropriate guidelines to assist ED physicians' CT use.

Using KrF ELA to Improve Gate-Stacked LaAlO3/ZrO2 Indium Gallium Zinc Oxide Thin-Film Transistors with Novel Atmospheric Pressure Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition Technique.

Atmospheric pressure plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (AP-PECVD) technique and KrF excimer laser annealing (ELA) were employed for the fabrication of indium gallium zinc oxide thin-film transistors (IGZO-TFTs). Device with a 150 mJ/cm2 laser annealing densities demonstrated excellent electrical characteristics with improved on/off current ratio of 4.7×107, high channel mobility of 10 cm2/V-s, and low subthreshold swing of 0.15 V/dec. The improvements are attributed to the adjustment of oxygen vacancies in the IGZO channel to an appropriate range of around 28.3% and the reduction of traps at the high-k/IGZO interface.

Investigation of Gate-Stacked In-Ga-Zn-O TFTs with Ga-Zn-O Source/Drain Electrodes by Atmospheric Pressure Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition.

Atmospheric pressure plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (AP-PECVD) was employed for the fabrication of indium gallium zinc oxide thin-film transistors (IGZO TFTs) with high transparent gallium zinc oxide (GZO) source/drain electrodes. The influence of post-deposition annealing (PDA) temperature on GZO source/drain and device performance was studied. Device with a 300 °C annealing demonstrated excellent electrical characteristics with on/off current ratio of 2.13 × 108, saturation mobility of 10 cm2/V-s, and low subthreshold swing of 0.2 V/dec. The gate stacked LaAlO3/ZrO2 of AP-IGZO TFTs with highly transparent and conductive AP-GZO source/drain electrode show excellent gate control ability at a low operating voltage.

Adverse event and error of unexpected life-threatening events within 24hours of ED admission.

OBJECTIVES: Errors and adverse events associated with unexpected life-threatening events including unplanned transfer to the intensive care unit (ICU) and unexpected death after emergency department (ED) hospitalization are not well characterized. We performed this study to investigate the role of unexpected life-threatening events as a trigger to capture errors and adverse events for ED patient safety. METHODS: This prospective observational study enrolled adult non-trauma patients with unexpected life-threatening events within 24h of general ward admission from the ED of a medical center in Taiwan. The period of study was one year (in 2013); the medical records of enrolled patients were reviewed to identify adverse events and errors. We measured the incidence rate of adverse events or errors. Preventability, type, and physical injury severity of adverse events were investigated. RESULTS: Of 33,224 adult non-trauma ward admissions from the ED, 100 admissions (0.3%) met the study criteria. Incidence rate was 2% and 15% for errors and adverse events, respectively. In admissions involving error, all were preventable and the error type was overlooked of severity. In admissions that involved adverse events, 93.3% were preventable. There were 20% of admissions that resulted in death and 60% developed with severe physical injury. The adverse event types were diagnosis issues (53.3%), management issues (40%), and medication adverse events (6.7%). CONCLUSIONS: Unexpected life-threatening events within 24h of admission from the ED could be a useful trigger tool to identify preventable adverse events with serious physical injury in ED.

An analysis of closed medical litigations against the obstetrics departments in Taiwan from 2003 to 2012†.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the epidemiologic data of closed medical claims from Taiwanese civil courts against obstetric departments and identify high-risk diseases. DESIGN: A retrospective descriptive study. SETTING/STUDY PARTICIPANTS: The verdicts from the national database of the Taiwan judicial system that pertained to obstetric departments were reviewed. Between 2003 and 2012, a total of 79 closed medical claims were included. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The epidemiologic data of litigations including the results of adjudication and the disease and outcome of the alleged injury. RESULTS: A majority of the disputes (65.9%) were fetus-related. Four disease categories accounted for 78.5% of all claims including (i) perinatal maternal complications (25.3%); (ii) errors in antenatal screening or ultrasound diagnoses (21.5%); (iii) fetal hypoxemic-ischemia encephalopathy (16.5%); and (iv) brachial plexus injury (15.2%). Six cases (7.6%) resulted in an indemnity payment with a mean amount of $109 205. Fifty-one cases (64.6%) were closed in the district court. The mean incident-to-litigation closure time was 52.9 ± 29.3 months. All cases with indemnity payments were deemed negligent or were at least determined to be controversial by a medical appraisal, while all defendants whose care was judged as appropriate by a medical appraisal won their lawsuits. CONCLUSIONS: Almost 93% of clinicians win their cases but spend 4.5 years waiting for final adjudication. The court ruled against the clinician only if there was no appropriate response during a complication or if there was no follow-up or further testing for potential critical diseases.

Physician Risk Tolerance and Head Computed Tomography Use for Patients with Isolated Headaches.

BACKGROUND: Headaches are one of the most common afflictions in adults and reasons for emergency department (ED) visits. OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the association between physician risk tolerance and head computed tomography (CT) use in patients with headaches in the ED. METHODS: We performed a retrospective study of patients with nontraumatic isolated headaches in the ED and then administered two instruments (Risk-Taking subscale [RTS] of the Jackson Personality Index and a Malpractice Fear Scale [MFS]) to attending physicians who had evaluated these patients and made decisions regarding head CT scans. Outcomes were head CT use during ED evaluation and hospital admission. A hierarchical logistic regression was used to determine the effect of risk scales on head CT use. RESULTS: Of the 1328 patients with headaches, 521 (39.2%) received brain CTs and 83 (6.9%) were admitted; 33 (2.5%) patients received a final diagnosis that the central nervous system was the origin of the disease. Among the 17 emergency physicians (EPs), the median of the MFS and RTS was 23 (interquartile range [IQR] 19-25) and 21 (IQR 20-23), respectively. EPs who were relatively risk-averse and those who possessed a higher level of malpractice fear were not more likely to order brain CTs for patients with isolated headaches. CONCLUSIONS: Individual EP risk tolerance, as measured by RTS, and malpractice concerns, measured by MFS, were not predictive of CT use in patients with isolated headaches.

Analysis of closed malpractice medical claims against Taiwanese EDs: 2003 to 2012.

OBJECTIVES: The objective of the study is to examine the epidemiologic data of closed malpractice medical claims against emergency departments (EDs) in Taiwanese civil courts and to identify high-risk diseases. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study and reviewed the verdicts from the national database of the Taiwan judicial system that pertained to EDs. Between 2003 and 2012, a total of 63 closed medical claims were included. RESULTS: Seven cases (11.1%) resulted in an indemnity payment, 55.6% of the cases were closed in the district court, but appeals were made to the supreme court in 12 cases (19.1%). The mean incident-to-litigation closure time was 57.7 ± 26.8 months. Of the cases with indemnity paid, 5 cases (71.4%) were deceased, and 2 cases (28.6%) were gravely injured. All cases with indemnity paid were determined to be negligent by a medical appraisal. The gravely injured patients had more indemnity paid than deceased patients ($299800 ± 37000 vs $68700 ± 29300). The most common medical conditions involved were infectious diseases (27.0%), central nervous system bleeding (15.9%), and trauma cases (12.7%). It was also found that 71.4% of the allegations forming the basis of the lawsuit were diagnosis related. CONCLUSIONS: Emergency physicians (EPs) in Taiwan have similar medico-legal risk as American EPs, with an annual risk of being sued of 0.63%. Almost 90% of EPs win their cases but spend 58 months in litigation, and the mean indemnity payment was $134738. Cases with indemnity paid were mostly categorized as having diagnosis errors, with the leading cause of error as failure to order an appropriate diagnostic test.

Impact of Pelvic Fracture on Patients with Blunt Bowel Mesenteric Injury: Is Immediate Laparotomy Warranted?

The management of blunt abdominopelvic trauma with combined hemoperitoneum and pelvic fractures is challenging for trauma surgeons. Although angioembolization can achieve hemostasis in most visceral organ injuries and pelvic fractures after blunt abdominal trauma, it cannot effectively control hemorrhage in patients with blunt bowel mesenteric injury (BBMI). This study aimed to determine the risk factors associated with hemodynamically unstable patients with BBMI and to test the hypothesis that pelvic fracture is an independent risk factor for patients with unstable BBMI and concomitant pelvic fracture to guide the therapeutic sequence for difficult-to-manage patients. This retrospective study reviewed the data of hospitalized patients with trauma between 2009 and 2021 and included 158 adult patients with surgically proven BBMI. The patients were divided on the basis of the presence of a shock episode before emergency laparotomy. The shock group included 44.3% of all patients in the study (n = 70). Clinical injury severity and prognosis for patients in the shock group were poorer than those for patients in the non-shock group, and more invasive treatments and transfusions were performed for patients in the shock group than for those in the non-shock group. Pelvic fractures were more frequently associated with the shock group than with the non-shock group (21.4% vs. 5.7%; p = 0.003). In multivariate analysis, the presence of intracerebral hemorrhage (odds ratio [OR] = 10.87, 95% confidence intervals [CIs]: 1.70-69.75) and rib fracture (OR = 5.94, 95% CIs = 1.06-33.45) was identified as an independent predictor of shock, whereas the effect of pelvic fracture did not achieve statistical significance (OR = 2.94, 95% CIs = 0.66-13.13) after adjusting for confounding factors. For patients with BBMI, outcomes need to be improved during early diagnosis, and treatments should be expeditiously performed on the basis of the rapid identification of unstable hemodynamic status. Our results support the recommendation of emergency laparotomy in unstable patients with concomitant pelvic fractures, followed by damage control TAE if needed.

Artificial-intelligence robot umpires in sailing race.

Today, many maritime nations have been promoting boat sports proactively, including sailing races. As sailing races are large-scale regattas that require massive workforces to monitor the game fairly; however, with limited match budgets and labors, Internet of Things (IoT) technology supports monitoring games has become a trend. This article proposes a robot umpire system in sailing races based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques, using drones and AIoT technology to monitor sailing matches. When a large number of sailboats are in a match, and each sail along different routes, drones can monitor the entire game simultaneously. The features of this proposed approach are (1) The system recognizes images by Faster R-CNN, judging whether a sailboat uses a motor to accelerate; (2) The system detects conditions by edge computing; when cheating behaviors happen, it can notify the event holder immediately; (3) Advanced drone route plans can avoid collision incidents; (4) Improve the system recognition by federated learning. This study has implemented an experiment with real drones and installed IoT equipment on the drones for taking videos and recognizing. The experimental result has shown that the proposed approach is feasible and benefits the match's fairness. Additionally, umpires can review the violation details from the videos taken by the drones, supporting evidence for judging.

A Study of Leisure Constraints and Job Satisfaction of Middle-Aged and Elderly Health Care Workers in COVID-19 Environment.

The purpose of the study was to examine the leisure constraints and job satisfaction of middle-aged and elderly health care workers. The study employed a mixed research method, utilizing SPSS 22.0 and AMOS 23.0 statistical software to analyze 260 questionnaires using basic statistical tests, t-tests, ANOVA tests, and structural equation models, and then interviewed medical and public health workers and experts in the field, and the results were analyzed using multivariate verification analysis. The results showed that there was a significant low correlation between leisure constraints and job satisfaction among middle-aged and elderly health care workers (p < 0.01); interpersonal constraints and external job satisfaction factors were the main influencing factors; improving promotion opportunities and receiving appreciation increased job satisfaction; poor working environment and facilities, as well as the lack of achievement, were the main factors that reduced satisfaction; health factors, a lack of family support, no exercise partner, and a lack of extra budget are the key to leisure constraints. If the organization can provide nearby sports facilities for middle and high-age medical workers, improve welfare, and increase willingness to participate in leisure activities, physical and mental health can be improved. Finally, interpersonal interaction in leisure obstacles is the main reason for improving job satisfaction.

Effects of Microwave and Furnace Annealing for P-Type SnO Thin Film Material in Oxygen Ambient.

Transparent conductive oxide (TCO) semiconductors are attracted considerable attention due to a wide range of applications, such as flat panel display (FPD), touch panels, solar cells, and other optoelectronic devices. Owing to the different carrier conduction paths between n-type and P-type TCOs, the n-type TCO used in TFTs usually have high Ion/Ioff current ratio (>107) and high electron mobility (>10 cm²/V·s), P-type TCO TFTs are both lower than that of n-type one. For complementary circuits design and applications, however, both P-type and n-type semiconductor materials are equally important. For SnO thin films, it is important to adjust the ratio of Sn2+ (SnO P-type) and Sn4+ (SnO2 n-type) in order to modulate the electrical characteristics. In this investigation of post treatment for SnO thin films, both microwave annealing (MWA) and furnace annealing process with 02 ambient are studied. The results show that SnO thin films are optimized at 300 °C, 30 minutes furnace annealing, the P-type SnO/SnO2 thin film shows surface mean roughness 0.168 nm, [Sn2+]/[Sn4+] ratio as 0.838, at least 80% transmittance between 380 nm-700 nm visible light. Withthe results, SnO can be even used to fabricate high performance P-type thin film transistors (TFTs) device for future applications.