Research Programs

Light Sources &
Organic Electronics

Objective

Large area organic light-emitting diode for backlighting.

Apply novel nonlinear organic materials to silicon nanostructures and photonic crystal fibers to dramatically improve current state-of-the-art information processing technologies.

Develop new materials and processing techniques to enable light-weight, flexible, low-cost organic electronic circuits, photovoltaics, and integrated platforms.

Implementation Plan

•Exploit new chemistries and molecular architectures to control and improve charge mobility.

•Model and develop new processing/packaging strategies based on thermal and mechanical limitations of new materials.

•Demonstrate circuits or arrays of devices leading to functional systems with improved performance.

Impact

• Improved fiber optic and silicon chip technologies

•Creation of organic circuits integrating light sources, photodetectors, and transistors on plastic substrates

• Portable organic solar cells to power a broad range of new organic devices

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