MHz Organic Electronics Printed in a Single Step

Professor Aimin Song obtained PhD in 1995 and then held fellowships from the Royal Society, Humboldt foundation, and Swedish Research Council. His research is to explore new physical effects that arise on the nanometer scale, and to develop new types of nanoelectronic devices based on these effects. The device concepts have been applied to two main application areas: ultra-high-speed (up to a few THz, 1 THz = 1000 GHz) nanoelectronics based on compound semiconductors and printable organic electronics. He had >40 invited conference talks/seminars. His team won the House of Commons Rolls-Royce Prize, Best Conference Paper at three International Conferences, and a Royal Society Brain Mercer Feasibility award. He became Professor of Nanoelectronics in 2006 and recently founded Nano ePrint, Ltd. Most recently, he was awarded a Distinguished Achievement Medal for Researcher of the Year 2007 of the University of Manchester.

The Organic Materials Innovation Centre (OMIC) is a University Innovation Centre for the speciality organic materials and polymer industries based at the University of Manchester. The centre was established in 2004 with support from the UK Government. It is an independently managed partnership between industry and academia to help businesses to innovate and grow through collaborative R&D projects. OMIC has considerable expertise in the discovery, development and characterisation of new organic materials, for example conjugated oligomers, soluble oligoacenes, conjugated liquid crystals and semiconducting / conducting polymers. In addition OMIC has expertise in the processing, using ink-jet technology, of the novel semi-conducting and conducting polymers into a wide range of devices on a diverse range of substrates. Since 2009 OMIC has been a major partner in the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry (KCMC).