Flexible Electronics and Displays Committee

Paul R. Berger

Ohio State University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Columbus, Ohio, USA

Tampere University, Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Printed and Organic Electronics Group, Tampere, Finland 

Lecture Topics:

-Si-based Resonant Interband Tunnel Diodes for Quantum Functional and Multi-level Circuitry (Mixed-Signal, Logic, and Low Power Embedded Memory) to Extend CMOS

-Organic Photovoltaics: An Introduction to OPV plus Plasmonic enhancements (i.e. point-of-use energy harvesting, conformable to flexible and curved surfaces)

-Passive Millimeter Wave Imaging for Security and Safety via Si-based Backward Diode Sensors (i.e. detect concealed weapons and airplane safety for sight through fog, smoke and light rain)

-Fully Printed Flexible Internet-of-Things Nodes with Energy Scavenging and Non-toxic Energy Storage

-Nitride-Based Resonant Tunneling Structures for Terahertz Gain

-Unipolar-doped Co-Tunneling Structures: A new pathway for efficient light emission without P-type doping

 

Paul R. Berger (S’84 M’91 SM’97 F’11) is a Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Ohio State University and Physics (by Courtesy). He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tampere University in Finland. He received the B.S.E. in engineering physics, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. (1990) in electrical engineering, respectively, all from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Currently, Dr. Berger is actively working on quantum tunneling devices, printable semiconductor devices & circuits for IoT, bioelectronics, novel devices, novel semiconductors and applied physics.

Formerly, he worked at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ (1990-’92) and taught at the University of Delaware in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1992-2000). In 1999, Prof. Berger took a sabbatical leave while working first at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany and then moved on to Cambridge Display Technology, Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom. In 2008, Prof. Berger spent an extended sabbatical leave at IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center) in Leuven, Belgium while appointed as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. And more recently he took a sabbatical leave in 2015-2016 at Tampere University of Technology.

He has authored over 120 articles, 5 book sections and been issued 22 patents with 6 more pending from 60 + disclosures with a Google Scholar H-index of 33. Some notable recognitions for Dr. Berger were an NSF CAREER Award (1996), a DARPA ULTRA Sustained Excellence Award (1998), a Lumley Research Award (2006, 2011), a Faculty Diversity Excellence Award (2009) and Outstanding Engineering Educator for State of Ohio (2014). He has been on the Program and Advisory Committees of numerous conferences, including the IEDM, ISDRS, EDTM meetings. He currently is the Chair of the Columbus IEEE EDS/Photonics Chapter and Faculty Advisor to Ohio State’s IEEE Student Chapters. In addition, he is Chair of the EDS technical committee on Electronic Materials and a member of their Flexible Electronics committee too. He was also an SRC Vice-Chair for IEEE EDS in Regions 1-3,7, and recently elected to the IEEE EDS Board of Governors (19’-21’). He is a Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE EDS and a Senior member of Optical Society of America.

Ioannis (John) Kymissis is an electrical engineer teaching at Columbia University. His area of specialization is solid state electronics and device fabrication, with an emphasis on thin film devices and the use of organic semiconductors in his work. He graduated with his SB, M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT, and after working as a post-doc and at QDVison, joined the faculty at Columbia University in 2006. John has won a number of awards for his work, including the NSF CAREER award, the IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport award, the Vodaphone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Award, and the MIT Clean Energy Prize. He is currently serving as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Society for Information Display and is the general chair for the 2013 Device Research Conference.

 

Lecture Topics

- Organic semiconductors, single chip sensors, flexible electronics, micro-LEDs

 

 

Professor Arokia Nathan leads a multi-disciplinary research group whose primary focus is on the heterogeneous integration of materials and processes, sensors, energy harvesting and storage devices pertinent to wearable technologies. Formerly a Chair Professor of Photonic Systems and Displays at the University of Cambridge, he is currently the Chief Technical Officer of Cambridge Touch Technologies, a company spun out of the University developing advanced interactive technologies. He has published over 600 papers and 110 patents, and has co-authored five books.

 

Lecture Topics
- Flexible Electronics
- Oxide Semiconductor Electronics
- Ultralow Power Transistors and Sensor Interfaces
- Active Matrix OLED Displays
- TFT Compact Modeling and Parameter Extraction
- Nanoscale Large Area Electronics
- Multi-Force Touch Technology for Interactive Displays 

 

 

Prof. Yong-Young Noh is working as Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering at POSTECH from 2019. He received Ph.D. in 2005 at GIST and then worked at the Cavendish Laboratory as a Post-doc. (2005 – 2007). After then he worked in ETRI as a Senior researcher (2008 – 2009), Hanbat National University as an Assistant professor (2010 – 2012), and Dongguk University-Seoul as an Associate Professor (2013-2018). Prof. Noh has been published more than 270 SCI papers and 60 patents and awarded Merck Young Scientist Award (2013), Korean President Award (2014), IEEE George E. Smith Award (2014), This Month Scientist Award of Korea (2016), and Samsung Display-KIDS Gold Award (2017). He also edited a book entitled “Large Area Flexible Electronics” (John-Wiley VCH). His expertise is in the organic and molecular electronics, printed electronics, and flexible electronics.

Xiaojun Guo is now Professor in Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received the Bachelor degree from Jilin University (China) in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Surrey (UK) in 2007, both in electronic engineering. He worked on EDA for VLSIs in Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University during 2002-2003. His PhD research was on system-on-panel integration with low-temperature poly-Si TFTs. Before joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Aug. 2009, he had been working in Plastic Logic Ltd., Cambridge, UK, on research and development of printed polymer TFTs backplanes for flexible displays, and technology transfer for manufacturing. His group at Shanghai Jiao Tong University is now focusing on device and integration of printable thin film transistors and functional devices including displays, sensors and memories. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 technical papers in international journals and conference.