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Presented By: EECS

Electronics on anything: How thin film electronics can instrument the world

Speaker Ioannis Kymissis, Professor, Columbia University

Speaker Ioannis Kymissis, Professor, Columbia University Speaker Ioannis Kymissis, Professor, Columbia University
Speaker Ioannis Kymissis, Professor, Columbia University
Silicon electronics have revolutionized the processing and handling of information. The high temperatures required to create crystalline silicon devices, however, has limited the application of crystalline silicon to sensing systems that work in a small and mechanically rigid form factor. The development of inorganic and organic thin film electronics has launched a second revolution in electronics, granting the ability to process electronically active materials at low temperatures. This has allowed for two exciting opportunities: the ability to build electronic devices on the same size scale as the systems they interact with, and the ability to integrate electronic materials on a range of substrates including electronically active and flexible materials. Our group has been working on the hybrid integration of organic semiconductors and SLS laser-recrystallized silicon with active substrates to implement sensing, display, and mechanical actuation functionalities. In this presentation, I'll show how thin film electronics and the hybrid integration enabled by new semiconductor systems and process options allows for active and spatially localized control of systems that are typically used in a single element format. Using this capability we have demonstrated the electronic implementation of all five senses as well a new approaches to mechanical actuation in polymer materials and driving LEDs in display engines. In particular, I'll show how thin film transistors can be integrated with other active materials to build monolithically integrated microphones and pressure sensors, flexible sheet scanners, mass-based chemical sensors, high power light engines, and segmented polymer actuators. It is our hope that these devices will form some of the building blocks for future electronic systems and interface paradigms with application in a range of technological and healthcare areas.
Speaker Ioannis Kymissis, Professor, Columbia University Speaker Ioannis Kymissis, Professor, Columbia University
Speaker Ioannis Kymissis, Professor, Columbia University

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