{"id":223819,"date":"2025-10-23T04:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/new-organic-thin-film-tunnel-transistors-for-wearable-and-other-small-electronics"},"modified":"2025-10-23T04:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T09:20:04","slug":"new-organic-thin-film-tunnel-transistors-for-wearable-and-other-small-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/new-organic-thin-film-tunnel-transistors-for-wearable-and-other-small-electronics","title":{"rendered":"New organic thin-film tunnel transistors for wearable and other small electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-organic-thin-film-tunnel-transistors-for-wearable-and-other-small-electronics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To meet the growing demands of flexible and wearable electronic systems, such as smart watches and biomedical sensors, electronics engineers are seeking high-performance transistors that can efficiently modulate electrical current while maintaining mechanical flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Thin-film transistors (TFTs), which are comprised of thin layers of conducting, semiconducting and insulating materials, have proved to be particularly promising for large-area flexible and wearable electronics, while also enabling the creation of thinner displays and advanced sensors.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their potential, the energy-efficiency with which these transistors can switch <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrical+current\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrical current<\/a> has proved difficult to improve. This is due to the so-called thermionic limit, a theoretical threshold that delineates the lowest possible voltage required for a transistor to boost electrical current by a factor of 10 at room temperature when switching between \u201coff\u201d and \u201con\u201d states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To meet the growing demands of flexible and wearable electronic systems, such as smart watches and biomedical sensors, electronics engineers are seeking high-performance transistors that can efficiently modulate electrical current while maintaining mechanical flexibility. Thin-film transistors (TFTs), which are comprised of thin layers of conducting, semiconducting and insulating materials, have proved to be particularly promising [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}