The Thin Film Electronics Project develops rigorous measurements and methodology needed for continued U.S. leadership in manufacturing and innovation of emerging electronic devices.
Today's electronics have reached a point where sheer computation power has yielded to combined form and function as the key driver of large consumer markets. The demand for portable and pervasive electronics with greater functionality promises significant changes over the next decades in how society interacts with each other and its surroundings. Such rapid and significant change requires continued improvements in traditional high performance low power electronics for informatics as well as entirely new device technologies based emerging electronic materials and novel integration methods to provide the specific functionality in the compliant form factor demanded. Examples of these new electronic materials and devices include: atomic, molecular, organic, atomic layer 2-D semiconductors, III-V, and metal oxide based transistors, optoelectronics, and sensors. As new concepts are being developed and demonstrated, a close coupling of technology and metrology development is also needed to continue to solidify our understanding and ensure a smooth transition to commercialization.
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Technical Goals:
This objective is aligned with the project's general mission to establish measurements that quantify physical processes and electronic properties. These in turn open unforeseen pathways to manipulate such processes and properties for entirely new functionality and innovation in the electronics industry.