World's fastest organic CMOS circuit realizes multi-bit flexible temperature

sensor

- Evolution as IoT device realizing advanced information management from box

unit to individual item -

February 14, 2017

FUJIFILM Corporation
Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.
Osaka Prefectural Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
JNC Corporation
DENSO CORPORATION
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Japan Electroplating Engineers Co., Ltd.
PI CRYSTAL CORPORATION
National University University of Tokyo

The group such as Fujifilm, Toppan Forms, Pai Crystal succeeded in further
speeding up and integration of the organic semiconductor CMOS circuit which can
be manufactured by printing in the NEDO project, and from the unique ID code
and temperature sensor stored inside the electronic tag It is now possible to
greatly expand the amount of information acquired.

The world's fastest organic CMOS circuit developed this time is all formed on a
film substrate, and as a plastic electronic tag with a low cost temperature sensor
function realizing IoT (Internet of Things), more advanced logistics management,
health care etc. We made great strides towards mass production for a wide range
of applications.

In addition, we plan to exhibit this result at the NEDO booth within "nano tech
2017" to be held at Tokyo Big Sight from February 15th to 17th, 2017.
Fig. 1 Digital circuit and trial production tag of temperature management
electronic tag composed of the world's fastest organic CMOS circuit developed
this time

Figure 2 Temperature Sensor Block with Organic A / D Converter Circuit

This result was obtained as a result of the strategic energy-saving technological

innovation program of "New Energy and Industrial Technology Development
Organization (NEDO)" National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (NEDO) "Development of plastic electronic tag using innovative high
performance organic transistor" .

1. Results of this year

Fig. 3 Digital circuit (left) of temperature control electronic tag and

high-speed logic operation waveform (right)
 Integration with world's fastest organic CMOS

Fujifilm and Pai Crystal Co., Ltd., Professor Takeya of the University of Tokyo
developed a high mobility organic semiconductor CMOS circuit fabricated by
"single crystal application" which applies a solution and makes it single crystal. In
the high-speed operation of the organic CMOS flip-flop circuit of Fig. 3, the logic
operation speed exceeds 0.5 MHz, achieving a speed which is one order of
magnitude higher than the report of the same group so far. Furthermore, we
developed a process to realize integration that does not rely on miniaturization
from conventional methods by stacking p-type layer and n-type layer for this
application type high-speed organic CMOS. With these new technologies, we can
build sophisticated integrated circuits using more than a few thousand transistors,
and also enable direct communication between temperature management
electronic tags and smart devices.

Figure 4 Organic A / D Converter Circuit for Reading the Temperature Sensor

(Left) and the
Manufactured Device (Top Right) and its Output Characteristics (Right Bottom)

Flexible multibit organic A / D converter

realizes temperature sensor reading

The Osaka Prefectural Institute of Industrial Science and Technology has

developed a flexible temperature sensor structure that can operate stably even in
the refrigeration / freezing temperature range for logistics temperature
monitoring. Also, in collaboration with PI CRYSTAL LTD., We can print multi-bit A /
D converter which converts analog signal of temperature sensor to digital signal
using organic CMOS flip-flop circuit with world's fastest response speed in the
world for the first time It was realized using semiconductors (Figure 4). By
combining with the organic semiconductor CMOS circuit of , it is possible to
construct RFID tag for temperature control which can perform contactless
communication and realize usage for low cost temperature monitor such as
physical distribution management and environmental management.

Glossary

* 1 An organic CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) circuit is a

circuit in which thin film transistors using p-type and n-type organic
semiconductors are integrated in the active layer. Efficient logic operation with
low power consumption becomes possible.

* 2 Flip-flop circuit is a logic circuit for recording and holding logical

information. Digital signal processing with a large amount of data becomes
possible. In this case adopt D type.

2. Outline and purpose of NEDO project

Figure 5 Project Organization Chart

Fujifilm, Toppan Forms Corporation, Osaka Prefectural Institute of Advanced

Industrial Science and Technology, JNC Corporation, DENSO CORPORATION,
Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd., Japan Electroplating Engineers Ltd., Pai Crystal
Corporation, National University corporation Tokyo We are implementing NEDO's
strategic energy-saving technological innovation program "Development of plastic
electronic tags using innovative high-performance organic transistors" in a group
composed of universities.

In this project, an organic semiconductor targeting a cost less than 1/10, a

performance of 10 times or more, and a cost performance of 100 times or more
than that of a conventional polycrystalline organic semiconductor device is
formed easily and at low cost, and a commercial frequency We aim to realize an
RFID tag with high-speed response capability that can be communicated with.

For inquiries regarding this matter, please contact below.

(Inquiries about research contents)

National University University Professor Graduate School of Frontier

Sciences, the University of Tokyo Junichi Takeya

TEL 04-7136-3790, 080-5484-2760

FAX 04-7136-3790

E-mail takeya@ku-tokyo.ac.jp

(Public Relations Office for each organization)

FUJIFILM Corporation Corporate Communication Department

TEL 03-6271-2000

FAX 03-6271-1171
 Toppan Forms Co., Ltd. Public Relations Department

TEL 03-6253-5730

FAX 03-6523-5629

E-mail koho@toppan-f.co.jp

Local independent administrative agency Osaka Pref. Industrial

Technology Research Institute Management Planning Office Takehiko
Mori

TEL 0725-51-2560

FAX 0725-51-2513

Tomohiro Koike with Research and Development Headquarters, JNC

Corporation

TEL 0436-21-5127

FAX 0436-23-0381

E-mail koike@jnc-corp.co.jp

Hiroshi Yoshida, Corporate Communications Department, DENSO

CORPORATION

TEL 0 566-25-5593

FAX 0566-25-4509

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo Co., Ltd. /

Head manager, marketing department, Electroplating Engineering Co.,
Japan Yoshiro Shindo

TEL 03-6311-5596

FAX 03-6311-5529

E-mail t-shindou@ml.tanaka.co.jp
 PI CRYSTAL LTD Research & Development Department Tomonori Matsuro

TEL 06-6155-5676

FAX 06-6155-5676