Liquid Crystal Display Cells Fabricated on Plastic Substrate Driven by Low-Voltage Organic Thin-Film Transistor with Improved Gate Insulator and Passivation Layer

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Organic thin-film transistor (OTFT)-driven $5\times 5$ polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) display cells on a flexible plastic substrate have been developed. It is necessary to increase the maximum usable gate voltage of OTFT to obtain a high contrast ratio. We propose a stacked gate insulator that consists of polyvinylphenol and anodized Ta2O5 for decreasing the gate leakage current and increase the maximum voltage. The OTFT with the insulator showed a field-effect mobility of 0.4 cm2/(V s), a current on/off ratio of $10^{5}$, a low threshold voltage of 1.1 V, and a subthreshold slope of 0.2 V/decade. Leakage current was successively decreased up to a gate voltage of 15 V, maintaining a low-voltage operation of OTFT. Double passivation layers using polyvinylalcohol and photosensitive acrylic material are also proposed to prevent the degradation of OTFT by liquid crystal. The bending characteristics of OTFT on plastic substrates were also measured for various radiuses of curvature. The OTFT can operate at a radius of curvature exceeding 20 mm. On the fabricated display cells, we confirmed a good display operation with a contrast ratio of $10:1$ with a low driving voltage of 12–13 V.
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2005-06-15