IEEE Rochester EDS presentation

IEEE & SID Members!

Please see the details below and the attached flyer on an upcoming presentation jointly sponsored by the Society for Information Display (Mid-Atlantic Chapter) and the IEEE Electron Devices Society (Rochester Chapter).

Photolithographic Patterning of Organic Semiconductors

Professor George Malliaras
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

When: 4:30PM on Monday, Oct 6th

Where: Xerox Auditorium, Gleason Building

A critical issue for the realization of organic electronics is the availability of patterning techniques that are compatible with these materials. Although great strides have been achieved in our ability to pattern organics, the techniques used in the mature and entrenched industry of silicon processing have made little impact in this field.
This is primarily due to incompatibilities between chemicals used in photolithography and the vast majority of organics. Overcoming these incompatibilities promises a breakthrough in the manufacturing of organic electronics since it would provide for massively parallel output along with process knowledge and equipment already available from a very successful industry. We report on a few generic approaches for the photolithographic patterning of organic materials using sacrificial layers as well as photoresists that can be processed with solvents that are orthogonal to organics. We demonstrate the applicability of these approaches to the additive and subtractive patterning of several organic semiconductors, including polymers and small molecules. The application of photolithography to pattern various organic devices relevant to display applications is demonstrated.

George Malliaras is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University and the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility. He received his PhD from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in
1995 and joined Cornell as a faculty member in 1998. He is the recipient of the NYS Academy of Sciences Blavatnik Award, the NSF Young Investigator Award, and the DuPont Young Professor Grant. He is an author of over 100 papers in peer reviewed journals and serves as the chairman of the editorial board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry.

SID - Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Ioannis (John) Kymissis
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Columbia University SEAS johnkym@ee.columbia.edu

Rochester IEEE EDS Chapter
Karl D. Hirschman
Micron Professor, Microelectronic Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology kdhemc@rit.edu