ATI student wins best paper award for a third year at Merck CASE Conference
Tuesday 7 June 2011
Stamatis Georgakopoulos, a third-year ATI PhD student, has won The Best Scientific Talk Award at the annual Merck CASE Conference, held on 9-10 May 2011 in Southampton, UK. Stamatis introduced a new type of semiconducting polymer transistor in his presentation, where the current is controlled by a potential energy barrier between the active polymer layer and a metal electrode. Such a transistor requires much lower voltages to reach typical operational conditions and offers the possibility of making smaller gap active channel regions for faster, and smaller devices.
The work follows the pioneering research of Professor John Shannon who invented the Source-Gated Transistor at the University of Surrey.
Dr Maxim Shkunov, PhD project supervisor, comments: “This is the third year running the ATI has been awarded the best talk to one of our students. It highlights the innovative research approaches developed at the ATI in this area of growth where the UK leads, and is highly applicable to large-area printed electronics. This work can lead to much faster polymer electronic circuits that can be simply printed on flexible substrates including plastics“.
Professor Ravi Silva, Director of the ATI, said: “The research is conducted in collaboration with one of the leading organic semiconductor companies in the world and highlights the excellent University-Industry collaborations that are at present being conducted at the ATI. We hope such technologies will lead to scientific advances culminate in commercial applications. This is exactly the type of research we would like to facilitate via our EPSRC KTA award“.
