Flexible 64 × 64 Pixel AMOLED Displays Driven by Uniform Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Transistors.

ABSTRACT

Carbon nanotube (CNT) thin-film transistors are expected to be promising for use in flexible electronics including flexible and transparent integrated circuits and in wearable chemical and physical sensors and for driving the circuits of flexible display panels. However, current devices based on CNT channels suffer from poor performance uniformity and low manufacturing yield; therefore, they are still far from being practical. This is usually caused by nonuniform deposition of the semiconducting CNTs and the rough surface of flexible substrates. Here, we report CNT thin-film transistors (TFTs) driving a flexible 64 × 64 pixel active matrix light-emitting diode display (AMOLED) by improving the formation of uniform CNT films and developing a new pretreatment technique for flexible substrates. The achieved AMOLED has uniform brightness and a high yield of 99.93% in its 4096 pixels. More than 8000 TFTs with high-purity semiconducting CNTs as the channel material show an average on-off current ratio of ∼107 and a carrier mobility of 16 cm2 V-1 s-1. The standard deviations of the on-state current and the carrier mobility are 4.1 and 6.5%, respectively. Our result shows that the panel driven by high-purity semiconducting CNTs is a promising strategy for the development of next-generation flexible, large-area displays.