Macro Electronics
Contact: David Gundlach
The overall goal of the Macro Electronics Project is to develop the metrology that will help enable broad commercialization of macro electronic technologies, such as printed organic electronics. This involves determining the critical metrology needs for emerging macro electronic device technologies as well as established ones to be employed in entirely new applications. The project is currently focused on organic-based thin film transistor (OTFT) technology which makes use of soluble organic semiconductors for fabricating transistors on arbitrary substrate materials such as flexible plastic films. The near term goals include the establishment of the infrastructure necessary to fabricate organic devices with state-of-the-art performance, temperature-dependent current-voltage measurement capability to correlate device performance with the film microstructure, and numerical modeling of devices to evaluate the impact of parasitic effects and device design on the device operation and extrinsic performance. Long term goals include the development of expanded interdisciplinary measurement capabilities which enable correlations between organic electronic device performance and the structure, properties, and chemistry of critical materials and interfaces.
