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‘Soft' amplifier circuits based on field-effect ionic transistors

Nov 12, 2015 | 04:00 PM

Dr. Niels Boon, Department of Materials Science & Engineering North-western University Evanston, IL 60208 (USA)

Soft materials can be used as the building blocks for electronic devices with extraordinary properties such as transparency or flexibility. In this talk, I will discuss a model for a field-effect transistor in which ions are the gated species instead of electrons. This model sys-tem incorporates readily-available soft materials to represent a device that regulates ion currents and can be integrated as a component in larger circuits. Simulations confirm that this ionic device shows strong analogies with the electronic field-effect transistor(FET). Pivotal FET properties such as the threshold voltage and the transconductance can be identified. I will demonstrate the possibility of constructing elementary amplifier circuits in which the electronic transistor is substituted by the ionic transistor.

Time & Location

Nov 12, 2015 | 04:00 PM

Seminar Room T2 (1.4.03)