Acquisition of an Organic Thin Film Deposition System for Research and Training in Molecular Electronics and Nanophotonics

0115886 Kippelen该提案旨在获得一种高度专业化的有机薄膜沉积系统，用于开发和表征新的有机电子和纳米光子材料。该仪器不仅将影响光学科学的研究，而且通过这三个部门之间建立和待定的合作，也被认为是培养化学和物理学生的关键。主要研究者（Kippelen）最近获得了NSF有机光子材料和塑料光电技术的职业计划，ECS资助# 9985222，并与亚利桑那大学的教师一起从事多个多学科研究项目。（光学科学，化学和物理）通过由联邦来源资助的计划（AFOSR，DOE，NSF，ONR）和工业合同（3M，Durel Corporation，eMagin，Intel，（Nitto Denko Corporation）。收购拟议的低温有机薄膜沉积系统将补充现有的高温沉积系统，用于沉积无机该中心将成为亚利桑那大学光学科学中心研究能力的关键组成部分，该中心拥有全国最好的光学研究生和本科生教学计划之一。有了这种新的仪器，学生和博士后将能够创造用于光学存储，显示和成像的多功能有机材料-这三种技术预计将在未来几十年内对当地和区域经济产生重大影响。开发可加工、低成本、高性能的有机材料和训练有素的学生将在实现这些技术方面发挥关键作用。这种类型的仪器目前在这个校园里不存在，但与化学（阿姆斯特朗）最近开发的技术兼容。预计这一拟议设施与化学材料表征能力之间将实现真正的共生。通过拟议的有机薄膜沉积系统，P1将利用理学院和光学科学中心之间的合作在光折变和发光聚合物方面取得的最新突破，在以下领域开展研究：（i）高效和可靠的有机电致发光显示器和有机激光器;（ii）用于通信和信息处理（包括动态全息存储和成像）的光折射聚合物;（iii）有机基光伏技术;（iv）用于有机场效应晶体管的纳米厚图案化有机层;和（v）用于纳米电子学的有序纳米结构。这些计划的目标是为理解有机分子中以及与金属电极的界面处的电荷注入、电荷传输、电荷捕获和发光奠定基础。这些进展将导致新的材料和一次性设备上的重量轻，柔性基板，可以大规模生产，以低成本。制造的能力，以纳米厚度控制的有机薄膜是必不可少的新的和改进的有机光子技术的进步。光学科学公司目前的有机材料沉积系统限制了正在研究的设备的性能和生产新样品的速度。Kurt J. Lesker公司提供的SPECTROS系统是专门为有机材料的低温沉积而设计的。它将有机材料的蒸发和共蒸发的四个源与金属接触的沉积的两个源相结合。这种独特的系统能够制造有机多层光电器件及其电极，而无需破坏真空或在手套箱组件中的小钟罩之间转移样品。由于暴露于空气和水分是确定有机物内在光学和电子特性的关键参数，该系统将为我们提供在激烈的全球竞争领域与其他国家和国际研究小组竞争所需的能力。

0115886KippelenThis proposal is to acquire a highly specialized organic thin film deposition system for the development and characterization of new organic electronics and nanophotonic materials. The instrumentation will impact not only research in Optical Sciences, but is also considered to be critical in the training of students in Chemistry and Physics, through established and pending collaborations between these three departments. The Principal Investigator (Kippelen) was recently awarded an NSF CAREER Program on Organic Photonic Materials and Plastic Optoelectronic Technologies, an ECS grant # 9985222 and is engaged in several multidisciplinary research programs with faculty from The University of Arizona (Optical Sciences, Chemistry, and Physics) through programs funded by federal sources (AFOSR,DOE, NSF, ONR) and by industrial contracts (3M, Durel Corporation, eMagin, Intel, and Nitto Denko Corporation).The acquisition of the proposed low temperature organic thin film deposition system will complement existing high temperature deposition systems that are used for the deposition of inorganic materials and will become a key building block in the research capabilities of the Optical Sciences Center at The University of Arizona, a Center that has one of the nation's finest teaching programs in optics at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. With this new instrumentation, students and postdoctorals will be able to create multifunctional organic materials for optical storage, displays and imaging -- three technologies expected to significantly impact both local and regional economies in coming decades. The development of processable, low cost, high performance organic materials and well trained students will play a key role in enabling such technologies. Instrumentation of this type does not exist currently on this campus, but is compatible with technologies developed recently in Chemistry (Armstrong). A true symbiosis between this proposed facility, and the materials characterization capabilities in Chemistry, is anticipated.With the proposed organic thin film deposition system, the P1 will capitalize on recent breakthroughs in photorefractive and light-emitting polymers made possible by collaborations between faculty of the College of Science and the Optical Sciences Center to carry out research in the following areas: (i) highly efficient and reliable organic electroluminescent displays and organic lasers; (ii) photorefractive polymers for applications in communications and information processing, including dynamic holographic storage, and imaging; (iii) organic based photovoltaic technologies; (iv) nanometer thick patterned organic layers for organic field-effect transistors; and (v) organized nanostructures for nanoelectronics. The goals of these programs are to establish the foundations for an understanding of charge injection, charge transport, charge trapping, and light-emission in organic molecules and at interfaces with metallic electrodes. These advances will lead to new materials and disposable devices on light weight and flexible substrates that can be mass produced at low cost.The ability to fabricate organic films with nanometer thickness control is essential for the advancement of new and improved organic photonic technologies. Current deposition systems at Optical Sciences for organic materials are limiting the performance of devices under investigation and the pace at which new samples can be produced. The SPECTROS system offered by the Kurt J. Lesker Company has been specially designed for the low temperature deposition of organic materials. It combines four sources for the evaporation and co-evaporation of organic materials with two sources for the deposition of metallic contacts. This unique system enables the fabrication of organic multilayer optoelectronic devices and their electrodes without breaking the vacuum or having to transfer samples between small bell-jars in a glove-box assembly. Since exposure to air and moisture is a critical parameter in determining the intrinsic optical and electronic properties of organics, this system will provide us with the capabilities required to compete with other research groups at the National and International levels in an area of intense global competition.