Abstract: A paste for a photoelectric conversion layer used in an X-ray detector includes photoconductive particles, an organic polymer binder, a first organic solvent to dissolve the organic polymer binder, and a second organic solvent. The second organic solvent has a boiling point in a range of between about 150° C. and about 210° C., inclusive.

Abstract: Provided is a light emitting diode (LED) manufactured by using a wafer bonding method and a method of manufacturing a LED by using a wafer bonding method. The wafer bonding method may include interposing a stress relaxation layer formed of a metal between a semiconductor layer and a bonding substrate. When the stress relaxation layer is used, stress between the bonding substrate and a growth substrate may be offset due to the flexibility of metal, and accordingly, bending or warpage of the bonding substrate may be reduced or prevented.

Abstract: A wafer-scale x-ray detector and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The wafer-scale x-ray detector includes: a seamless silicon substrate electrically connected to a printed circuit substrate; a chip array having a plurality of pixel pads formed on a central region thereof and a plurality of pin pads formed at edges thereof on the seamless silicon substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes formed to correspond to the pixel pads; vertical wirings and horizontal wirings formed to compensate a difference of regions expanded towards the pixel electrodes from the pixel pads between the chip array and the pixel electrodes; a redistribution layer having an insulating layer to separate the vertical wirings and the horizontal wirings; and a photoconductor layer and a common electrode which cover the pixel electrodes on the redistribution layer.

Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT), a method of manufacturing the TFT, and a flat panel display comprising the TFT are provided. The TFT includes a gate, a gate insulating layer that contacts the gate, a channel layer that contacts the gate insulating layer and faces the gate with the gate insulating layer therebetween, a source that contacts an end of the channel layer; and a drain that contacts an other end of the channel layer, wherein the channel layer is an amorphous oxide semiconductor layer, and each of the source and the drain is a conductive oxide layer comprising an oxide semiconductor layer having a conductive impurity in the oxide semiconductor layer. A low resistance metal layer can further be included on the source and drain. A driving circuit of a unit pixel of a flat panel display includes the TFT.

Abstract: A method of driving an active display device. The method including recovering a threshold voltage of a switching transistor connected to a pixel. The recovering including applying a negative bias voltage to the switching transistor prior to charging each pixel during a charging period. The negative bias voltage is applied to a drain of the switching transistor.

Abstract: An inverter, a logic circuit including the inverter and method of fabricating the same are provided. The inverter includes a load transistor of a depletion mode, and a driving transistor of an enhancement mode, which is connected to the load transistor. The load transistor may have a first oxide layer as a first channel layer. The driving transistor may have a second oxide layer as a second channel layer.

Abstract: Example embodiments disclose transistors and electronic devices including the transistors. A transistor may include a charge blocking layer between a gate insulating layer and a gate. An energy barrier between the gate insulating layer and the gate may be increased by the charge blocking layer. The transistor may be an oxide transistor including a channel layer formed of an oxide semiconductor.

Abstract: A transistor may include: a gate insulting layer; a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating layer; a channel layer formed on the gate insulating layer; and source and drain electrodes that contact the channel layer. The channel layer may have a double-layer structure, including upper and lower layers. The upper layer may have a carrier concentration lower than the lower layer. A method of manufacturing a transistor may include: forming a channel layer on a substrate; forming source and drain electrodes on the substrate; forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate; and forming a gate electrode on the gate insulating layer above the channel layer. A method of manufacturing a transistor may include: forming a gate electrode on a substrate; forming a gate insulating layer on the substrate; forming a channel layer on the gate insulating layer; and forming source and drain electrodes on the gate insulating layer.

Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to a memory chip array including a plurality of cell arrays and at least one predecoder commonly connected to the plurality of cell arrays, wherein the memory chip array promotes an efficient arrangement structure of the memory chip array and is minimized in area.

Abstract: Large-scale X-ray detectors and methods of manufacturing the same are provided, the large-scale X-ray detectors include a photoconductor layer configured to generate electrical charges according to an incident X-ray using an entire area of the photoconductor layer, a common electrode on an upper surface of the photoconductor layer, a plurality of pixel electrodes, configured to convert the electrical charges into electrical signals, on a lower surface of the photoconductor layer and divided into a plurality of groups, and a plurality of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) each corresponding to one of the groups. Each ASIC is configured to process the electrical signals conveyed via the pixel electrodes in the corresponding group. The ASICs process the electrical signals so that seamless image information is collectively generated by the ASICs with respect to the entire area of the photoconductor layer.

Abstract: An optical touch panel may be used remotely to control a large-sized display device. According to a method of fabricating the optical touch panel, an optical sensor transistor for sensing light and a switch transistor for drawing data can be formed together on the same substrate by using a relatively simple process. The optical touch panel may include an optical sensor transistor and a switch transistor. The optical sensor transistor may be configured to sense light and the switch transistor may be configured to draw data from the optical sensor transistor. The optical sensor transistor may include a light sensitive oxide semiconductor material as a channel layer. The switch transistor may include a non-light sensitive oxide semiconductor material as a channel layer.

Abstract: Example embodiments are directed to X-ray detectors including double photoconductors. According to example embodiments, the X-ray detector includes a first photoconductor on which X-rays are incident, and a second photoconductor on which X-rays transmitted through the first photoconductor are incident. The first photoconductor and the second photoconductor include a tandem structure. The first photoconductor is formed of silicon and absorbs X-rays in a low energy band, and the second photoconductor is formed of a material that absorbs X-rays in an energy band higher than the low energy band of the X-rays absorbed by silicon.

Abstract: Example embodiments are directed an X-ray detector including an oxide semiconductor transistor. The X-ray detector including the oxide semiconductor transistor includes an oxide semiconductor transistor and a signal storage capacitor in parallel to each other on a substrate. The oxide semiconductor transistor includes a channel formed of an oxide semiconductor material, and a photoconductor. A pixel electrode and a common electrode are formed on opposite surfaces of the photoconductor. The channel includes ZnO, or a compound including ZnO and at least one selected from a group consisting of gallium (Ga), indium (In), hafnium (Hf), and tin (Sn).

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a light emitting device from a large-area bonding wafer by using a wafer bonding method using. The method may include forming a plurality of semiconductor layers, each having an active region for emitting light, on a plurality of growth substrates. The method may also include arranging the plurality of growth substrates on which the semiconductor layers are formed on one bonding substrate and simultaneously processing each of the semiconductor layers formed on each of the growth substrates through subsequent processes. The bonding wafer may be formed of a material that reduces or prevents bending or warping due to a difference of thermal expansion coefficients between a wafer material, such as sapphire, and a bonding wafer. According to the above method, because a plurality of wafers may be processed by one process, mass production of LEDs may be possible which may reduce manufacturing costs.

Abstract: Transistors, methods of manufacturing a transistor, and electronic devices including a transistor are provided, the transistor includes a channel layer, a source and a drain respectively contacting opposing ends of the channel layer, a gate corresponding to the channel layer, a gate insulating layer between the channel layer and the gate, and a first passivation layer and a second passivation layer sequentially disposed on the gate insulating layer. The first passivation layer covers the source, the drain, the gate, the gate insulating layer and the channel layer. The second passivation layer includes fluorine (F).

Abstract: Provided are a transistor, a method of manufacturing the transistor, and an electronic device including the transistor. The transistor may include a gate insulator of which at least one surface is treated with plasma. The surface of the gate insulator may be an interface that contacts a channel layer. The interface may be treated with plasma by using a fluorine (F)-containing gas, and thus may include fluorine (F). The interface treated with plasma may suppress the characteristic variations of the transistor due to light.

Abstract: An optical touch panel may include a plurality of light-sensing areas. The plurality of light-sensing areas may be integrally formed with pixels in a display panel or may be formed on the display panel, in order to sense incident light from outside the optical touch panel. A method of driving an optical touch panel may include sensing a change in an output from a plurality of light-sensing areas between two time points and determining that there is an optical input when the change in the output is greater than or equal to a first reference value that is defined in advance. The light-sensing areas may be integrally formed with pixels in a display panel or formed on a surface of the display panel, for sensing incident light from outside the optical touch panel.

Abstract: A thin film transistor (TFT) may include a channel layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a protective layer, a gate electrode, and/or a gate insulating layer. The channel layer may include an oxide semiconductor material. The source electrode and the drain electrode may face each other on the channel layer. The protective layer may be under the source electrode and the drain electrode and/or may cover the channel layer. The gate electrode may be configured to apply an electric field to the channel layer. The gate insulating layer may be interposed between the gate electrode and the channel layer.

Abstract: Transistors, electronic devices including a transistor and methods of manufacturing the same are provided, the transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer (as a channel layer) having compositions that vary in one direction. The channel layer may be an oxide layer including a first element, a second element, and Zn, which are metal elements. The amount of at least one of the first element, the second element, and Zn may change in a deposition direction of the channel layer. The first element may be any one of hafnium (Hf), yttrium (Y), tantalum (Ta), zirconium (Zr), gallium (Ga), aluminum (Al) or combinations thereof. The second element may be indium (In). The channel layer may have a multi-layered structure including at least two layers with different compositions.

Abstract: A transistor, a method of manufacturing a transistor, and an electronic device including a transistor are provided, the transistor may include a channel layer having a multi-layer structure. The channel layer may have a double layer structure or a triple layer structure. At least two layers of the channel layer may have different oxygen concentrations.