Integrated Organic Circuits Based On Industry-Compatible Process Flows (Printed Electronics Europe 2019)

In this presentation, we will discuss the different research options taken at imec to address these challenges towards a cost-effective industry-compatible integrated organic TFT technology. A focal point of our integration work is the development of a five mask-step back-channel etch process that resembles the standard a:Si process flow of display fab industry. We will describe the options taken to define an-industry compatible process flow and discuss their impact on organic TFT performance, yield and reproducibility, thereby revealing the potential of these tracks for industrial applications.

Prashant Agrawal received PhD (Electrical Engineering) from KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2015 and MS (Computers Science & Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is currently the Program Manager for Thin Film Electronics at Imec Belgium. Prior to this, he had been Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Imec between 2015-18 during which he managed technical and business development activities, and fund raising for internal ventures. He worked as Senior R&D Engineer in the Hyperspectral Imaging Group at Imec (Belgium) between 2014-2015 and as Technical Staff Member in the HPC Group at IBM Research India between 2006-2009.

Imec is the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, and energy. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and also has distributed R&D groups at a number of Flemish universities, in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, and offices in India and Japan.