Prashant Agrawal
Prashant Agrawal received his PhD in electrical engineering from KU Leuven (Belgium) and MS in computer science & engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is currently Program Manager for Sensor & Actuator Technologies at imec (Belgium) and focusing on flexible electronics and large-area MEMS. Before this, he had been Entrepreneur-in-Residence at imec during which he managed technical and business development activities, and fund raising for internal ventures. He has also worked in the Hyperspectral Imaging Group at imec (Belgium) and in the High-Performance Computing Group at IBM Research India.
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From displays to health patches: the broad capabilities of thin-film transistors
Thin-film transistors (TFTs) made of indium-gallium-zinc-oxide (IGZO) as the semiconducting material are typically used in backplane circuits for displays. TFTs offer many complementary features compared to Si-based transistors, such as processing on large area glass or flexible substrates, extremely low leakage current in standby mode, ability to drive mixed voltages, and the potential to achieve a lower cost per unit area. By using Si-like circuit design flows, IGZO-TFT-based circuits can be designed and integrated into applications beyond displays. These include large-area imagers for fingerprint sensing, printed sensors readout for wearable health patches, RFID tags for connecting physical objects to the Internet of Everything, and many more.
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