Materials Strategies for Hybrid Pi/Inorganic Electronic Circuitry

Tobin Marks
Northwestern University


Abstract

This lecture focuses on the challenging design, realization, characterization, and implementation of new materials and processing techniques for creating unconventional electronic circuitry. Fabrication methodologies to achieve these goals include high-throughput, large-area printing techniques combined with low temperature processing. Materials design topics to be discussed include: 1. Rationally designed high-mobility p- and n-type organic semiconductors for printed organic CMOS, 2. Polycrystalline and amorphous oxide semiconductors for transparent and mechanically flexible electronics, 3) Self-assembled and printable high-k nanoscale gate dielectrics for transistors, enabling ultra-large capacitance, low leakage, high breakdown fields, minimal trapped interfacial charge, and device radiation hardness. 4) Combining these materials sets to fabricate a variety of high-performance thin-film transistor-based circuitry. 5) Implications for photovoltaic materials.