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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2011
Filed:
May. 23, 2007
Christine Peck Kretz, Macungie, PA (US);
William Franklin Burgoyne, Jr., Bethlehem, PA (US);
Thomas John Markley, Blandon, PA (US);
Christine Peck Kretz, Macungie, PA (US);
William Franklin Burgoyne, Jr., Bethlehem, PA (US);
Thomas John Markley, Blandon, PA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
The use of a poly(arylene ether) polymer as a passivation or gate dielectric layer in thin film transistors. This poly(arylene ether) polymer includes polymer repeat units of the following structure:—(O—Ar—O—Ar—O—)—(—O—Ar—O—Ar—O)—where Ar, Ar, Ar, and Arare identical or different aryl radicals, m is 0 to 1, n is 1−m, and at least one of the aryl radicals is grafted to the backbone of the polymer.