B Nanoelectronic Materials
Description / Outline
Low-cost, versatile electronic materials and devices
Two major types of materials including their engineering into ordered structures and devices are investigated:
- Molecular
and polymer-based electronics for the engineering of new hierarchically
ordered multilayer assemblies and electron devices including solar
cells and field effect transistors
- Particulate-based
electronics are possibly characterized by a long lifetime, stability,
and reliability. Fundamental questions to be addressed are electron
transfer across particulate interfaces, self-organization of
semiconducting nanoparticles into particulate and hybrid thin films and
their integration into functional devices.The main technological
challenge is to demonstrate the construction of basic electronic
circuits form printable nanoparticulate pastes.
The major
trust of Research Area B is to integrate inorganic semiconductor and
conducting particles together with multifunctional organic molecules,
such a surface active and solubilizing molecules as well as redox-active
components like π -conjugated nanowires, carbon nanotubes, and
fullerene units as well as semiconducting and insulating polymers. The
goal is to establish a universal tool box system with complementary
components for the assembly of future nanoelectronic materials.
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