Tobin J. Mark

Department of Chemistry and the Materials Research Center

Northwestern University, Evanston IL

How Do We Design Materials for Flexible Hybrid Electronic Circuitry?

This lecture focuses on the challenging design, realization, and implementation of new materials for creating unconventional electronic circuitry. Fabrication methodologies to achieve these goals include high-throughput, large-area, high-resolution printing techniques. Materials design topics to be discussed include: 1. Rationally designed high-mobility p- and n-type organic semiconductors for printed organic CMOS, 2. Self-assembled and printable high-k nanodielectrics enabling ultra-large capacitance, low leakage, high breakdown fields, minimal trapped interfacial charge, and device radiation hardness, 3. Polycrystalline and amorphous oxide semiconductors for transparent and mechanically flexible electronics, 4. Combining these materials sets to fabricate a variety of high-performance thin-film transistor-based circuitries, 5. The relevance of these advances to unconventional photovoltaic materials.

Biography:

Tobin Marks is Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor of Applied Physics at Northwestern University. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Maryland (1966) and Ph.D. from MIT (1971) in Inorganic Chemistry. His research interests include transition metal and f‑element organometallic chemistry; catalysis; vibra­tional spectroscopy; synthetic facsimiles of metallo­protein active sites; carcinostatic metal complexes; solid state chemistry and low-dimensional molecular metals; nonlinear optical materials; polymer chemistry; tetrahydroborate coordination chemistry; macrocycle coordination chemistry; molecular electro-optics; metal-organic chemical vapor deposition; polymerization catalysis; printed flexible electronics; solar energy; and transparent conductors. Prof. Marks has received uncountable number of awards, and he is the member of National Academy of Engineering and Science. His awards in the past two years included: Sacconi Medal, Italian Chemical Society, 2015; Materials for Industry Award, Royal Society of Chemistry UK, 2015; Honorary Foreign Member, Chinese Chemical Society, 2015; Einstein Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2016; Member, National Academy of Inventors, 2016. Peer-reviewed publications: 1,250; h-index = 137 on 72,000 citations; Issued US Patents: 236.