UMN/IPRIME WORKSHOP

Organic Thin Film Electronics: Materials, Devices, and Applications

Coordinator: Dan Frisbie (612 625-0779, frisbie@cems.umn.edu)

Tuesday Afternoon, May 27, 1:00-5:00 pm

Wednesday Morning, May 28, 8:30-11:30 am

Tuesday Afternoon, May 27

Room: EE/CSci 3-115

1:00-1:30 Introductory Remarks

Organic Electronics Research at the University of Minnesota

Prof. Dan Frisbie, University of Minnesota

1:30-2:20 Progress Towards Low Cost Organic Electronics at 3M

Dr. Terry Smith, 3M Company

2:20-2:40 Break

2:40-3:30 Large Area Dry Printing of Organic Electronics

Dr. Curtis Fincher, Dupont

3:30-4:20 Critical Issues in Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Flexible Electronics

Dr. Jim Sheats, Intelleflex

4:20-5:00 Discussion

5:00 End (Dinner Event: Twins Baseball Game vs Oakland A’s, 6:30 pm)

Wednesday Morning, May 28

Room: EE/CSci 3-115

8:30-9:20 High-Performance Semiconductor Polymer Design for Low-Cost Plastic Transistors, Dr. Beng Ong, Xerox Corporation

9:20-10:10 Polymer Thin Film Transistors Based on Fluorene-Arylene Copolymers

Mitchell Dibbs, Dow Chemical

10:10-10:25 Break

10:25-11:15 Organic Transistor-Based Devices: Beyond the Limits of Polycrystalline Films

Dr. Howard Katz, Lucent Technologies

11:15-11:30 Discussion

11:30 End (Plenary Luncheon at 11:45 am (see program at www.iprime.umn.edu))

UMN Organic Semiconductors Program Review

Wednesday May 28th, 1:30-5:15 pm

Room: EE/CSci 0-000 (Room will be announced)

This program review will feature 15 minute presentations by students and postdocs working on organic electronics at Minnesota.

1. Observation of High n-Channel Mobility and Ambipolar Transport in an Organic Thin Film Transistor

Reid Chesterfield, Prof. Dan Frisbie

2. Potential Measurements in Operating Pentacene Field-Effect Transistors

Paul Pesavento, Prof. Dan Frisbie

3. Oligothiophenes as Molecular Electronic Materials That Can Be Both Oxidized and Reduced

Dr. Ted Pappenfus, Prof. Kent Mann

4. Synthesis and Properties of Substituted Oligothiophenes for New Organic Semiconductor Materials

Dr. Brian Holmes, Prof. Mike Ward

5. Synthesis and Characterization of Semiconducting Organic Compounds

Dr. Paul Ewbank, Prof. Kent Mann, Prof. Larry Miller

6. Theoretical Characterization of the Transport Properties of Organic Semiconductors

Dr. Demetrio Filho, Prof. Jean-Luc Bredas

7. Ultrafast Dynamics of Exciton Relaxation in C₆₀ and at C₆₀/Au Interfaces

Greg Dutton, Prof. Xiaoyang Zhu

8. Fabrication and Characterization of Single-Crystalline OFETs: Observation of Temperature-Invariant Transport Properties

Chris Newman, Prof. Dan Frisbie

9. Towards High Carrier Concentrations: Studies of Al₂O₃ and Single Crystal

SrTiO₃ Dielectrics

Melissa Eblen, Prof. Allen Goldman

10. High Pressure Effects on Pentacene FETs

Zhenlin Rang, Prof. Marshall Nathan, Prof. Paul Ruden

11. Schottky Energy Barriers at Metal-Organic Contacts

Lei Diao, Prof. Dan Frisbie

12. Field Effect Conductance of Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Nanofibers

Jeff Merlo, Prof. Dan Frisbie

POSTER SESSION

Lobby, University of Minnesota EE/CSci Building

After Program Review, Wednesday, May 28, 4:30-6:30 pm

This poster session will feature posters from all the IPRIME program areas, including the organic semiconductors program

DINNER for Workshop Participants and Attendees

After poster session, Wednesday Evening, May 28

Following the IPRIME Poster Session on Wednesday evening, we will host a dinner for Workshop participants in which we will seek your feedback on our organic semiconductor program. More information on this to follow.