Utilising high volume manufacturing techniques to produce polymer transistors, oleds & sensors (Printed Electronics 2004)

Mäkelä Tapio, Senior Research Scientist
VTT Information Technology, Finland
 

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Presentation Summary

  • Introduction (microelectronics-polymer electronics)
  • Patterning methods of conducting polymers
  • Examples of lowcost polymer devices

Speaker CV

Tapio Mäkelä is a Senior Research Scientist at the VTT Information Technology, Microelectronics research area, Espoo, Finland. He received his M.Sc. degree in physics from the university of Jyväskylä as well as a Ph.Lic. degree in applied physics. Since 1995 he has been working in VTT Information Technology.
 
He is working on patterning methods of inherently conducting polymers, especially polyanilines and their application to organic electronic and electro-optical devices. His current interests are low-cost polymer device research and manufacturing methods.

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VTT Information Technology is one of the six research institutes of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. In 2003, VTT Information Technology had a personnel of 405 man-years and an annual turnover of EUR 37 million.
 
We perform research and development in the following fields:
  • Microsensing
  • Microelectronics
  • Telecommunication
  • Networks
  • Information systems
  • Media technologies
  • Human interaction technologies
 
Our research work comprises
  • Confidential commissions to support our clients' product development.
  • Joint venture projects together with our clients and public counterparts.
  • Strategic, self-financed research projects in order to strengthen our know-how.