Next-generation materials and fabrication research for printed flexible electronics

基础研究在印刷柔性电子(PFE)中的应用是多种材料工程、智能光刻和电子物理的组合。随着产业界、学术界和公众的需求，PFES领域引起了人们的关注。使用有机功能材料的电子学和图形图案化技术之间的协同伙伴关系可能会推动一种全新的新型PFE应用，如柔性显示器、柔性传感器和简单的智能电子产品。功能电子墨水材料的直接图案化可能是理想的技术，以缓解世界上为高分辨率PFE器件制造纳米图案的迫切需求，而不是依赖于多个步骤的光刻。申请者在KAIST、麻省理工学院和施乐公司等世界领先的学术和工业研发机构接受过培训，并为PFES领域带来了新颖的方法。

Applications of fundamental research in Printed Flexible Electronics (PFEs) are combinations of diverse material engineering, smart lithography, and electronic physics. The PFEs field is attracting attention as industry, academia, and the public demand. A synergistic partnership between electronics and graphic patterning techniques using organic functional materials could fuel an entirely new genre of novel PFE applications, such as flexible displays, flexible sensors, and simple smart electronics. Direct patterning of functional electronic ink materials may be the ideal technology for mitigating the world's critical need to fabricate nano-patterns for high-resolution PFE devices, instead of relying on multiple steps of photo-lithography. The applicant has been trained in the world's leading academic and industrial R&D institutions such as KAIST, MIT, and Xerox Corporation, and brings novel approaches to the PFEs field.