Georgia Institute of Technology IEN | Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, GA

Directing Assembly of Organic Electronics Inspired by Living Systems
Ying Diao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

November 7th @ 11:00AM | Pettit Microelectronics Building 102 A&B

Abstract: Directed assembly, crystallization and microphase separation have played a central role in the development of modern electronics and energy materials. Recent years, printed electronics based on semiconducting molecular systems have emerged as a new technology platform that promise to revolutionize the electronics, clean energy and medical industry. In contrast to traditional electronic manufacturing that requires high temperature and high vacuum, these new electronic materials can be solution printed at near ambient conditions to produce flexible, light-weight, biointegrated forms at low-cost and high-throughput. However, it remains a central challenge to control the morphology of semiconducting molecular systems across length scales. The significance of this challenge lies in the order of magnitude modulations in device performance by morphology parameters across all length scales.

Image: Crystal Crown - By Tim Chung, Diao Research Group