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Major ongoing research is focusing on the structural properties of dielectric materials and deposition parameters to reduce interface charge traps and hysteresis caused by the dielectric\u2013semiconductor interface and dielectric bulk. This research focuses on improving the dielectric properties of a printed polymer material, cross-linked polyvinyl phenol (crPVP), by optimizing the cross-linking parameters as well as the aerosol jet printability. These improvements were then applied to the fabrication of completely printed carbon nanotube (CNT)-based thin-film transistors (TFT) to reduce the gate threshold voltage (Vth) and hysteresis in Vth during device operation. Finally, a fully aerosol-jet-printed CNT device was demonstrated using a 2:1 weight ratio of PVP with the cross-linker poly(melamine-co-formaldehyde) methylated (PMF) in crPVP as the dielectric material. This device shows significantly less hysteresis and can be operated at a gate threshold voltage as low as \u22124.8 V with an on\/off ratio of more than 104.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/nano12244487","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,19]],"date-time":"2022-12-19T07:59:21Z","timestamp":1671436761000},"page":"4487","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["All-Aerosol-Jet-Printed Carbon Nanotube Transistor with Cross-Linked Polymer Dielectrics"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Bhagyashree","family":"Mishra","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2226-7112","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yihong Maggie","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Materials Science, Engineering, and Commercialization, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA"},{"name":"Ingram School of Engineering, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5698","DOI":"10.1002\/adfm.201502367","article-title":"Fully Printed Foldable Integrated Logic Gates with Tunable Performance Using Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes","volume":"25","author":"Cai","year":"2015","journal-title":"Adv. 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