Abstract: This talk is addressed to those interested in high gain driver and amplifier design with advanced thin-film transistors. It provides a development progression and a forward look toward source-gated transistor application to future edge processing of sensor data, signal conditioning, and current-mode driving. Crucially, the concept can be applied in practically any material system. As such, the talk will present the fundamentals of contact effect engineering and modelling, design rules for successful SGT implementation, and specifics of performance optimisation in thin-film silicon, organic, and oxide semiconductors. Finally, the next step in the evolution of contact-controlled thin-film transistor, the multimodal transistor (MMT) will be briefly introduced. Speaker(s): Radu Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2N 1N4, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/579451