IRIS 2020
Unfortunately, IRIS 2020 was cancelled due to COVID-19.
You can learn more about what we had planned below.
You can learn more about what we had planned below.
Prof. Oana Jurchescu is an associate professor in the Physics Department at Wake Forest University and a member of the WFU Center for Functional Materials. She received her PhD (2006) from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD, (2007 – 2009). She joined WFU in 2009. Her expertise is in charge transport in organic semiconductors, device physics, and structure-property relationships in organic and hybrid functional materials. She won the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Wake Forest Award for Excellence in Research, the URECA Award for Excellence in Mentorship in Research and Creative Work, the Wake Forest University Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the Wake Forest Innovation award, and several other awards. She co-authored over 80 publications, 4 book chapters, holds 3 patents, and gave over 70 invited or plenary talks at international conferences. She is a member of the executive committee of the Division of Materials Research within American Physical Society.
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Fantastic Plastic: Fueling a Revolution in Electronics
Plastic is ubiquitous in most sectors of our lives due to its low cost, lightweight, versatility and ease of molding into any shape. For many years, however, its use was restricted to that of an encapsulant in the electronics industry. The birth of plastic electronics has changed that and now sensors built from plastics (i.e. organic semiconductors) save lives in the hospitals and on the battlefield, light-emitting diodes incorporated in displays produce the most vivid pictures, and an increasing number of products are approaching the marketplace. Plastic electronics retain the key attributes of plastic and augment current technologies with products where traditional electronics are not applicable: they can enable flexible and conformable circuits that can be placed on anything to introduce a revolutionary concept of electronics everywhere. In this presentation I will focus on such materials and devices which provide an opportunity to incorporate electronics in non-traditional areas such as clothing, electronic paper, flexible and rollable applications, or bio-integrated applications. A mind-blowing array of new products include rollable displays, tattoo-like smart bandages that inform medical professionals in real time, conformable electronics inserted into clothes and even human body. For such a sweeping revolution to occur, innovation is needed in materials and devices. Research activities over the past decades provide a tremendous foundation of knowledge on the phenomena occurring in organic electronics and promise versatile commercial applications. |