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US 2008/0188092 A1Published application
Electronic Device Array
AssigneePlastic Logic Limited
InventorPaul A. Cain
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InventorPaul A. Cain
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A method of producing an array of electronic devices, the method including the steps of: forming one or more first conductive elements of a first electronic device on a substrate and one or more second conductive elements of a second electronic device on said substrate; and forming a layer of channel material over the substrate and the first and second conductive elements to provide a first channel for, in use, the movement of charge carriers between conductive elements of said first electronic device and a second channel for, in use, the movement of charge carriers between conductive elements of said second electronic device; wherein the method also includes the step (a) of using an irradiative technique to decrease in a single step the conductivity of one or more selected portions of the layer of channel material in one or more regions between the first and second conductive elements.
A method of producing an array of electronic devices, the method including the steps of:
A method according to any preceding claim, wherein the channel material is a semiconductor material.
A method according to any preceding claim wherein said step (a) involves ablating said portions of the channel material.
A method according to any preceding claim, wherein step (a) includes focussing one or more laser beams to one or more points located in said one more selected portions of the layer of channel material or respective portions of the substrate underlying said one or more selected portions.
A method according to any preceding claim wherein the region of the substrate in which the channel material is irradiated does not form a closed path around the first and/or second electronic device.
An array of electronic devices comprising at least one first and one second electronic device on a substrate, each of the first and second electronic devices including a patterned layer of channel material, wherein said patterned layer of channel material also defines, in use, one or more conduction paths between the first and second electronic devices, but wherein the pattern of said layer of channel material is configured such that the shortest conduction path between said first and second electronic devices, is longer by a factor of at least 50% than the shortest physical distance between said first and second electronic devices.
An array of electronic devices comprising at least one first and one second electronic device on a substrate, each of said first and second electronic devices including a patterned layer of channel material;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.