This book illustrates a variety of circuit designs on plastic foils and provides all the information needed to undertake successful designs in large-area electronics. The authors demonstrate architectural, circuit, layout, and device solutions and explain the reasons and the creative process behind each. Readers will learn how to keep under control large-area technologies and achieve robust, reliable circuit designs that can face the challenges imposed by low-cost low-temperature high-throughput manufacturing.

. Discusses implications of problems associated with large-area electronics and compares them to standard silicon;
. Provides the basis for understanding physics and modeling of disordered material;
. Includes guidelines to quickly setup the basic CAD tools enabling efficient and reliable designs;
. Illustrates practical solutions to cope with hard/soft faults, variability, mismatch, aging and bias stress at architecture, circuit, layout, and device levels.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Applications of large-area electronics on foils.- State of the art in circuit design.- Device modeling and characterization.- Sensor frontend architecture.- Circuit design for analog signal conditioning.- Circuit design for data conversion.- Circuit design for digital processing.- Conclusions.