Carbon for Printed Electronics (Printed Electronics Europe 2007)

Dr. George Gruner is Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of California Los Angeles and CTO of Unidym Inc, a Silicon Valley based company. He received his BS and Ph.D. degrees in Budapest, Hungary. Between 1972 and 1973 he was a postdoctoral associate at Imperial College, London. In 1980 he was appointed Professor of Physics at UCLA. He has been and is adviser of several Companies and Government Organizations. Between 2001 and 2005 he served as the CTO and Chief Scientist of Nanomix Inc, a company developing nano-scale sensors. In 2005 he funded Unidym Inc, a company focusing on nano-structured materials applications for flexible/transparent electronics. His awards include the Guggenheim and Alexander von Humboldt award, together with the "Technology Pioneer Award", given by the World Economic Forum. Dr. Gruner is the inventor of over 30 patents and applications, he has published over 400 papers and 2 books.

Unidym is a leader in the development, manufacture, and application of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for electronic devices. Unidym's CNT-based transparent conductive film delivers both process simplification and mechanical robustness for touch screens and display applications. When CNT-based films are compared to current ITO/IZO transparent electrode materials, Unidym's products offer valuable features such as uniform transmission across the entire visible light spectrum, mechanical flexibility, reduced reflectivity and are more cost effective to manufacture. In addition to its product applications, Unidym has an expansive IP portfolio, with over 200 foreign and domestic patents and patent applications on CNTs and their applications.