Organic Semiconductors For Displays, Lighting And Photovoltaics

Bill Imler, Squirrel Hill Associates, Oakland, CA

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

The newly emerging field of organic electronics has the potential to revolutionize the display, lighting and photovoltaic industries. The first applications of organic electronics have been in small displays for hand-held devices, in which the active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) displays are brighter, more colorful and consume less energy than the older, but still dominant, passive-matrix and LCD technologies. Over the next few years, these AMOLED displays will increase in size, challenging large-area plasma and LCD displays. A simpler version of OLED technology can be used to produce lighting panels. Organic semiconductors used in photovoltaic devices can enable many applications, which would be impossible for traditional photovoltaic materials. New manufacturing techniques being developed for organic semiconductors such as solution processing, inkjet printing and roll-to-roll processing could result in extremely inexpensive, very large area displays and OPV panels.