MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Thin Films of Small Organic Molecules for Photonics:
Displays, Optical Switches and Other Devices
Stephen Forrest
Princeton University, Visiting EECS MIT
Monday, March 18, 1996
4:00 PM (3:45 refreshments)
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
EECS Colloquium
Abstract
After over 40 years of fundamental research, there has been a sudden
renewal of interest in using organic materials for new optoelectronic
devices. Thin films of these materials, which can be produced in
polymeric or vacuum-deposited forms, have long been considered to be
too environmentally unstable and impure to meet the demands of modern
electronic systems. These "prejudices" against using organics have
been softened, however, by recent demonstrations of very high
bandwidth (approaching 100 GHz) polymer optical modulators, and high
brightness vacuum-deposited "small molecule" electroluminescent
devices with thousands of hours of usable life. When coupled with
the extraordinarily large range of materials and structures whose
dimensions can be controlled to within a single monolayer, organic
thin film devices present an enormously rich opportunity for use in
new optoelectronic device applications.
In this talk, we will discuss recent advances in our laboratory and
worldwide in organic thin film materials and devices. Since the scope
of this field is extremely large, we will concentrate on
vacuum-deposited materials and devices especially as they relate to
electroluminescent displays and organic optoelectronics.
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