Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Oxides and Transparent Electronics: Fundamental Research or Heading Towards Commercial Products? -- 1.2 The Need for Transparent (Semi)Conductors -- 1.3 Reaching Full Transparency: Dielectrics and Substrates -- References -- 2 N-type Transparent Semiconducting Oxides -- 2.1 Introduction: Binary and Multicomponent Oxides -- 2.1.1 Binary Compounds: the Examples of Zinc Oxide and Indium Oxide -- 2.1.2 Ternary and Quaternary Compounds: the Examples of Indium-Zinc Oxide and Gallium-Indium-Zinc Oxide -- 2.2 Sputtered n-TSOs: Gallium-Indium-Zinc Oxide System -- 2.2.1 Dependence of the Growth Rate on Oxygen Content in the Ar+O2 Mixture and Target Composition -- 2.2.2 Structural and Morphological Properties -- 2.2.3 Electrical Properties -- 2.2.4 Optical Properties -- 2.3 Sputtered n-TSOs: Gallium-Zinc-Tin Oxide System -- 2.4 Solution-Processed n-TSOs -- 2.4.1 ZTO by Spray-pyrolysis -- 2.4.2 ZTO by Sol-gel Spin-coating -- 2.4.3 GIZO Sol-gel by Spin-coating -- References -- 3 P-type Transparent Conductors and Semiconductors -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 P-type Transparent Conductive Oxides -- 3.3 Thin Film Copper Oxide Semiconductors -- 3.3.1 Role of Oxygen in the Structure, Electrical and Optical Performance -- 3.4 Thin Film Tin Oxide Semiconductors -- 3.4.1 Structure, Composition and Morphology of Tin Oxide Films -- 3.4.2 Electrical and Optical Properties of Tin Oxide Films -- References -- 4 Gate Dielectrics in Oxide Electronics -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 High-k Dielectrics: Why Not? -- 4.3 Requirements -- 4.4 High-k Dielectrics Deposition -- 4.5 Sputtered High-k Dielectrics in Oxide TFTs -- 4.6 Hafnium Oxide -- 4.6.1 Multicomponent Co-sputtered HfO2 Based Dielectrics -- 4.6.2 Multicomponent Dielectrics from Single Target -- 4.7 Tantalum Oxide (Ta2O5).

4.7.1 Multicomponent Ta2O5 Based Dielectrics -- 4.8 Multilayer Dielectrics -- 4.9 High-k Dielectrics/Oxide Semiconductors Interface -- 4.10 Summary -- References -- 5 The (R)evolution of Thin-Film Transistors (TFTs) -- 5.1 Introduction: Device Operation, History and Main Semiconductor Technologies -- 5.1.1 Device Structure and Operation -- 5.1.2 Brief History of TFTs -- 5.1.3 Comparative Overview of Dominant TFT Technologies -- 5.2 Fabrication and Characterization of Oxide TFTs -- 5.2.1 N-type GIZO TFTs by Physical Vapor Deposition -- 5.2.2 N-type GZTO TFTs by Physical Vapor Deposition -- 5.2.3 N-type Oxide TFTs by Solution Processing -- 5.2.4 P-type Oxide TFTs by Physical Vapor Deposition -- 5.2.5 N-type GIZO TFTs with Sputtered Dielectrics -- References -- 6 Electronics With and On Paper -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Paper in Electronics -- 6.3 Paper Properties -- 6.3.1 Structure, Morphology and Thermal Properties -- 6.3.2 Electrical Properties of the Paper -- 6.4 Resistivity Behaviour of Transparent Conductive Oxides Deposited on Paper -- 6.5 Paper Transistors -- 6.5.1 Current Transport in Paper Transistors -- 6.6 Floating Gate Non-volatile Paper Memory Transistor -- 6.6.1 Memory Paper Device Feasibility and Stability -- 6.6.2 Memory Selective and Charge Retention Time Behaviors -- 6.7 Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor Circuits With and On Paper - Paper CMOS -- 6.7.1 Capacitance-Voltage and Current-Voltage Characteristics of N/P-Type Paper Transistors -- 6.7.2 N- and P-channel Paper FET Operation -- 6.7.3 CMOS Inverter Working Principles -- 6.7.4 Paper CMOS Performance -- 6.8 Solid State Paper Batteries -- 6.9 Electrochromic Paper Transistors -- 6.10 Paper UV Light Sensors -- References -- 7 A Glance at Current and Upcoming Applications -- 7.1 Introduction: Emerging Areas for (Non-)transparent Electronics Based on Oxide Semiconductors.

7.2 Active Matrices for Displays -- 7.2.1 Display Market Overview and Future Trends -- 7.2.2 Driving Schemes and TFT Requirements for LCD and OLED Displays -- 7.2.3 Displays with Oxide-Based Backplanes -- 7.3 Transparent Circuits -- 7.3.1 Inverters and Ring Oscillators -- 7.3.2 The Introduction of Oxide CMOS -- 7.4 Oxide Semiconductor Heterojunctions -- 7.4.1 Oxide Semiconductor Heterojunctions in the Literature -- 7.4.2 GIZO Heterojunctions Fabricated at CENIMAT -- 7.5 Field Effect Biosensors -- 7.5.1 Device Types and Working Principles -- 7.5.2 Oxide-Based Biosensors Fabricated at CENIMAT -- References -- Index.