Events

Description:

The GOLDEN GATE POLYMER FORUM

June 2002 Dinner Lecture & Other Announcements

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" Fully Screen Printed Light Emitting Polymer Displays"

Sue A. Carter,
Add-vision, Inc., Scotts Valley (www.add-vision.com)
and
Physics Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Cruz

The discovery of semiconducting polymers in the 1970's
offered the promise of using liquid-based processing to
make fully printable semiconductor electronics that would dramatically cut costs over traditional solid state high temperature vacuum-based processing. Several decades later, many printing techniques, such as ink-jet, reel-to- reel, slot coating and screen printing, have been shown to be useful for printing part of the semiconductor device structure. Nonetheless, the initial promise of fully printable commercially-viable semiconductor polymer devices has yet to be realized due to several key marketing, manufacturing and technical challenges.

In this talk, I will discuss how we have overcome some of
these challenges to make the first fully printed light
emitting polymer display using a screen printing process. Starting with a blanket deposited ITO coated plastic (or
glass) substrate, we have developed a manufacturable
process that allows all the layers in a light emitting
polymer display to be patterned and printed using a
standard screen printing press operating under atmospheric
conditions. I will address the technical issues associated
with screen printing an electroluminescent polymer layer
and the top electrode (cathode) to maximize device
performance. The advantages and disadvantages of screen printing over alternative printing technologies, such as ink-jet and reel-to-reel, will be compared within the context of the commercial applications. I will end by showing demonstrations of fully printed polymer devices and discuss the applicability of this manufacturing technique to other polymer electronic devices, such as solar cells.

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PRACTICAL DETAILS

DATE: Tuesday, June 25

Location: Michael's at Shoreline Park, Mountain View

Timing: 6 PM social hour
7 PM dinner
8 PM lecture

Cost: $30
half price students, retired, unemployed
free for just the lecture at 8PM
(but please let us know for headcount)

Deadline for registration: 5 PM, Friday, June 21

Please register on the web site
https://ggpf.mystagingwebsite.com/
Otherwise, register by contacting
Claudia Allison
callison@gelpak.com
(510)-576-2234

You should receive confirmation of your registration; if not, please contact us again.

PLEASE SPECIFY YOUR DINNER SELECTION, NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS,
AND AFFILIATION

Dinner choices:
broiled salmon
chicken stuffed with mushrooms
vegetarian Napoleon (polenta, eggplant, vegetables)

Note that we must request that you be liable for your registration fee if you register and do not attend; cancellation is allowed up to the registration deadline.

DIRECTIONS:

From 101 in Mountain View, take the Shoreline Boulevard
Exit, turning toward the bay. Drive past the Shoreline Amphitheater and go straight ahead, entering into Shoreline Park. After a mile or so inside the park, a sign for Michael's will direct you to turn left into the parking lot for Michael's.
Address: 2960 N Shoreline Blvd.
Restaurant phone: 650-962-1014
(do not call restaurant for reservations)

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Upcoming GGPF Dinner Lectures:

July date & topic t.b.d.

Aug. 13, Mountain View (Michael's)
Mike Jaffe, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
"Novel Phase Formation in Polymeric Biomaterials
and Its Impact on Performance"

Sept.12, Mountain View (Michael's)
James Bennett of Symyx Technologies, Inc.
"Rapid Thermal Analysis."

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OTHER EVENTS of possible interest to the
GGPF audience:

JUNE

June 12, Palo Alto
monthly meeting of the Bay Area MEMS Journal Club
speaker: Tom Clifford, Lockheed/Martin
For more information, contact Rolfe Anderson, RAnderson@ACLARA.com

June 17-19, Monterey
IXth International Seminar on the Technology of
Inherently Conductive Polymers http://www.conductivepolymers.com/

June 21, San Jose
PTI short course
Fundamentals of Photolithography
http://www.pti-inc.com/

June 23-28, Monterey
Electrochemical Society
11th International Meeting on Lithium Batteries http://www.electrochem.org/meetings/satellite/imlb/11/meeting.htm

June 27, Stanford
Northern California AVS one-day symposium
Nano and Bio-Nanoscience Research Meeting https://chapters.avs.org/nccavs/nanoscience/nanobio.html

JULY

July 14-16, Stanford
July 14, short course
July 15-16, conference
Photonic Devices & Systems Packaging Symposium http://www.cpmt.org/phopack/

July 17-18, San Jose
International Electronics Manufacturing
Technology Symposium
http://www.cpmt.org/iemt/

July 17-19, San Jose
SEMICON - Backend/final manufacturing focus
&
July 22-24, S.F.
SEMICON - Wafer fab focus http://www.semi.org/web/wcontent.nsf/url/na_02westhome

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