Fully-additive Printed Electronics: Process Development Kit.

Printed/Organic Electronics (PE) is an emerging technology with gargantuan market potential, particularly if its realization is low cost and the supply chain associated with its design is manageable/established. For the former, a Fully-Additive All-Air Low-Temperature process (vis-à-vis a Subtractive process) is desirable, while for the latter, a comprehensive Process Development Kit (PDK) for Electronic Design Automation tools is necessary. In this paper, we delineate, arguably the first-ever PDK for PE - this PDK is developed for our Fully-Additive All-Air Low-Temperature printing process with very-low process variations, and capable of complete circuit realizations on a myriad of substrates, including low-cost low-temperature flexible plastic films. Our proposed PDK embodies accurate modeling of the printed transistor and printed passive elements. With these models, comprehensive schematic simulations can be performed, including Monte Carlo simulations. We demonstrate the efficacy of our PDK, in part based on our measured process variations. The layout design rules for our Fully-Additive printing process to facilitate layout design - imperative for estimating the printing area and the printing cost - are also delineated herein.