Organic electronics occupies a truly scalable world.
Phenomena at the quantum level can provide solutions to applications as large as wall-mounted displays and lighting, to solar cells that cover the sides of buildings, to flexible electronic circuits that can mimic the eye and “see around corners”.
Beyond the quantum, morphological control at the nano-scale, moving on to individual devices with micrometer and millimeter dimensions, to printing literally “kilometers” of circuits as if they were newsprint provides new and exciting challenges to the device physicist, applications engineer, and specialist in advanced manufacturing. In this talk,
Stephen will discuss several important demonstrations of organic electronic devices that span this unprecedented range of dimensions. He will then consider what the future holds in this field that is rapidly emerging as a global industry.
About Stephen
Forrest:
Professor Stephen Forrest received his
B. A. Physics,
1972,
University of California, MSc and PhD Physics in
1974 and
1979,
University of Michigan. At
Bell Labs, he investigated photodetectors for optical communications. In
1985,
Prof. Forrest joined the
Electrical Engineering and
Materials Science Departments at
USC where he worked on optoelectronic integrated circuits, and organic semiconductors. In
1992, Prof. Forrest became the
James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering at
Princeton University. He served as director of the
National Center for
Integrated Photonic
Technology, and as
Director of
Princeton's Center for Photonics and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM), and from 1997-2001, he chaired Princeton’s Electrical Engineering
Department. In
2006, he rejoined the University of Michigan as
Vice President for
Research, and is the
Paul G. Goebel Professor in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Materials Science and Engineering, and Physics. A Fellow of the
APS,
IEEE and
OSA and a member of the
National Academy of Engineering, he received the IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Lecturer
Award in 1996-97, and in
1998 he was co-recipient of the
IPO National Distinguished Inventor Award as well as the
Thomas Alva Edison Award for innovations in organic
LEDs. In
1999, Prof. Forrest received the
MRS Medal for work on organic thin films. In
2001, he was awarded the IEEE/LEOS
William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award for advances made on photodetectors for optical communications systems. In 2006 he received the
Jan Rajchman Prize from the
Society for Information Display for invention of phosphorescent
OLEDs, and is the recipient of the
2007 IEEE
Daniel Nobel Award for innovations in OLEDs. Prof. Forrest has been honored by Princeton University establishing the Stephen R. Forrest
Endowed Faculty
Chair in Electrical Engineering in
2012. Prof. Forrest has authored ~550 papers in refereed journals, and has 263 patents, with an h-index of
112. He is co-founder or founding participant in several companies, including
Sensors Unlimited, Epitaxx,
Inc., NanoFlex
Power Corp. (
OTC: OPVS),
Universal Display Corp. (
NASDAQ:
OLED) and
Apogee Photonics, Inc., and is on the
Board of Directors of
Applied Materials and PD-LD, Inc. He has also served from 2009-2012 as
Chairman of the Board of
Ann Arbor SPARK, the regional economic development organization, and serves on the
Board of Governors of the
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He is
Vice Chairman of the
Board of the
University Musical Society and is on the
Executive Committee of the
Michigan Economic Development Corp.
The Lurie
Nano Fabrication facility at the University of Michigan 2nd annual
LNF Users
Symposium:
Sponsored by the University of Michigan's
Energy Institute
http://energy.umich.edu/
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- published: 11 Dec 2014
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