Seminar: Organic semiconductors for flexible electronics

Organic semiconductors for flexible electronics

July 11, 1:30-2:30

CISX-Auditorium

Henning Sirringhaus

Professor, Cambridge University, UK

Chief Scientist, PlasticLogic  

Conjugated polymer semiconductors offer new opportunities for the controlled

manufacturing of active electronic circuits by a combination of solution

processing and direct printing. We will review current understanding of

their device physics with a particular emphasis on understanding the

electronic structure of polymer heterointerfaces governing the device

performance. Recent advances include realization of ambipolar organic

transistors which allow easy integration of information processing and

light-emission functions. We will also review recent progress towards

manufacturing of organic transistor circuits by high-resolution printing

techniques for applications in displays and low-cost intelligent labels.  

Henning Sirringhaus is the Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. He has been working in the field of organic transistor devices since 1997. He has an undergraduate and PhD degree in physics from ETH Zürich (CH). From 1995-1996 he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Princeton University (USA) on a-Si TFTs for active-matrix liquid crystal displays. He is co-founder and Chief Scientist of Plastic Logic Ltd., a technology start-up company commercialising printed organic transistor technology. He was awarded the Mullard award of the Royal Society in 2003. His scientific interests include the charge transport physics of molecular, and polymeric semiconductors, the development of printing-based nanopatterning techniques, and the use of scanning probe techniques for electrical characterization of functional nanostructures.