Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium

4:15PM, Wednesday, October 27, 1999
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03

Organic and Polymer Transistors: From Molecules to Large Scale Circuits

Dr. Ananth Dodabalapur
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ 07974
About the talk:
Thin-film transistors with organic/polymer semiconductor active layers have emerged as potentially useful for applications such as electronic paper and RF ID tags. n-channel and p-channel transistors have been demonstrated with mobilities in the range 0.02 -1 cm2/V-s, adequate for such applications. The principal advantages of organic transistors are simplicity of fabrication and compatibility with flexible substrates. Organic-based smart pixels, row decoders, and the first large-scale complementary integrated circuit – a 48-stage shift register- have been recently demonstrated. A CMOS RF ID tag and an 8-bit microprocessor are currently being designed. In parallel, numerous fabrication methods have been created or adapted for low-cost organic electronics, and a few will be briefly described.

About the speaker:

To Be Provided.

Contact information:

A. Dodabalapur
Bell Laboratories
Lucent Technologies
Murray Hill, NJ
ananth@lucent.com