On the aging of OTFTs and its impact on PUFs reliability

Given the current maturity of printed technologies, Organic Thin-Film Transistors (OTFT) still show high initial variability, which can be beneficial for its exploitation in security applications. In this work, the process-related variability and aging of commercial OTFTs have been characterized to...

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Autores: Porti i Pujal, Marc|||0000-0001-7438-3823, Palau, Gerard, Crespo Yepes, Albert|||0000-0003-4618-651X, Arnal Rus, August|||0000-0002-3425-1057, Ogier, Simon|||0000-0002-6643-5256, Ramon, Eloi|||0000-0001-9974-8112, Nafria, Montserrat|||0000-0002-9549-2890
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:291256
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/291256
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3390/mi15040443
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:OTFT
Variability
Reliability
PUF
Aging
BTI
HCI
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Sumario:Given the current maturity of printed technologies, Organic Thin-Film Transistors (OTFT) still show high initial variability, which can be beneficial for its exploitation in security applications. In this work, the process-related variability and aging of commercial OTFTs have been characterized to evaluate the feasibility of OTFTs-based Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) implementation. For our devices, ID-based PUFs show good uniformity and uniqueness. However, PUFs' reliability could be compromised because of the observed transient and aging effects in the OTFTs, which could hinder the reproducibility of the generated fingerprints. A systematic study of the aging of OTFTs has been performed to evaluate the PUFs' reliability. Our results suggest that the observed transient and aging effects could be mitigated so that the OTFTs-based PUFs' reliability could be improved.