This paper presents an energy-harvesting system consisting of amorphous-silicon (a-Si) solar cells and thinfilm-transistor (TFT) power circuits on plastic. Along with patterned planar inductors, the TFTs realize an LCoscillator that provides power inversion of the DC solarmodule output, enabling a low-cost sheet for inductivelycoupled wireless charging of devices. Despite the low performance of...

This chapter aims to provide the reader with a practical knowledge about electrical methods to measure organic thin film transistor devices. It presents a series of recipes, which allow the experimentalist to gain insight into the performance and limitations of the devices and circuits being measured. It also gives guidelines on how to correctly interpret the measurements and to provide feedbac...

An important objective of software fault tolerant systems should be to provide a fault-tolerance infrastructure in a manner that minimizes the effort required by the application developer. In the limit, the objective is to provide fault tolerance transparently to

We study the sewing constraints for rational two-dimensional conformal field theory on oriented surfaces with possibly non-empty boundary. The boundary condition is taken to be the same on all segments of the boundary. The following uniqueness result is established: For a solution to the sewing constraints with nondegenerate closed state vacuum and nondegenerate two-point correlators of boundar...

Introduction Lecture 1. Algebraic properties of correlators in 2D topological field theory. Moduli of a 2D TFT and WDVV equations of associativity. Lecture 2. Equations of associativity and Frobenius manifolds. Deformed flat connection and its monodromy at the origin. Lecture 3. Semisimplicity and canonical coordinates. Lecture 4. Classification of semisimple Frobenius manifolds. Lecture 5. Mon...

Solutions of the stress field due to the eigenstrain of an ellipsoidal inclusion in the film/ substrate half-space are obtained via the Fourier transforms and Stroh eigenrelation equations. Based on the acquired solutions, the effect of a thin film’s thickness on the stress field is investigated with two types of ellipsoidal inclusions considered. The results in this paper show that if the thic...

We have utilized a transmission ratio (TR) between curtain-shaped (Curtain) Mura and non-Mura zones as a key parameter to characterize the optical appearance of Curtain Mura occurred on a 13.3-in TFT–TN panel (Mura sample) after bonding process to place silicon-based driver-IC chips on one of the panel substrates using anisotropic conductive film as a binder (COG ACF process). Our measured TRs ...

The promise of enhanced physical properties and multifunctionality has led many groups to study polymer matrix composites (PMCs) reinforced with nanoscale elements, such as nanofibers, nanowires, and nanotubes. However, the application of such material in next-generation aerospace architectures is currently limited by the geometrical constraints and high energy costs of traditional manufacturin...

Here, we report on carbon nanotube paper-based electroanalytical devices. A highly aligned-carbon nanotube (HA-CNT) array, grown using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), was processed to form bi-layered paper with an integrated cellulose-based Origami-chip as the electroanalytical device. We used an inverse-ordered fabrication method from a thick carbon nanotube (CNT) sheet to a thin CNT sheet. A...

Nanostructuring boron-doped diamond (BDD) films increases their sensitivity and performance when used as electrodes in electrochemical environments. We have developed a method to produce such nanostructured, porous electrodes by depositing BDD thin film onto a densely packed "forest" of vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The CNTs had previously been exposed to a suspension ...