Printable Organic Semiconducting Materials and Formulations - Combining High Performance and Air Stability (Printed Electronics Europe 2008)

Mark James received a BSc from Durham and a PhD from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, specializing in organic synthesis. After postdoctoral research at Southampton, he joined ICI and remained there for 18 years seeing the transformation through Zeneca to Avecia InkJet Limited. For 10 years he ran IJ projects ranging from colorant design to developing industrials processes to manufacture PCBs. In 2005 he moved to the Centre for Process Innovation to set up and manage their flexible electronics substrate research and manufacturing operation. Returning to IJ in 2006, Mark now leads Merck's IJ activities covering topics including OLED, OSC and PV patterning.