Guest Editorial Special Issue on Transparent Electronics - IEEE Xplore

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ROM material and design advancements to new innovative processing methods, there have been significant recent achievements in the area of transparent electronics. This Special Issue focuses on this emerging technology and recent work in the field spanning from fundamental research to technology development. The articles in this Special Issue cover the general topics of Materials & Performance, Fabrication Techniques, and Devices & Applications. Materials & Performance advancements in transparent wide bandgap electronic materials are described in the articles reporting on metal oxide, GaN, and rare earth systems. Material enhancements focusing on lowering resistivity and increasing mobility are described. Attention is given to both experimental and modeling and simulation efforts. These papers discuss measured material properties, modeling results, and performance of structures up to the complexity of TFTs. Along with material progress, advancements in Fabrication Techniques are required to enable new device designs and new applications. The articles in this Special Issue covering novel processing methods describe innovative fabrication and characterization of transparent electronic devices. Methods are described that enable continuous processing of devices focused on increasing throughput and enabling new cost effective device configurations. These papers discuss novel fabrication techniques and evaluate the impact of new process steps on structure and performance. The full benefits of transparent electronics are seen in the final device design and performance. Transparent electronics enable advancements in device technologies and open the opportunity for new applications. Application articles focused on the benefits of transparent electronics include display and organic light-emitting diode devices. Aspects of environmental stability and efficiency are discussed. Papers discussing Devices

& Applications focus on design and performance of structures, such as OLED displays. The articles in this Special Issue describe significant advancements in the field of transparent electronics and the potential impact on device performance, cost, and potential applications. Exciting new opportunities are imminent that take advantage of innovative transparent electronic material, fabrication methods, and device designs.

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SEAN M. GARNER Science and Technology Center Corning Inc. Corning, NY 14831 CHUNG-CHIH WU Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University Taipei City, 10617 Taiwan YONGTAEK HONG Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Seoul National University Seoul, Korea FRANKY SO Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 XIN JIANG The Institute of Materials Science and Surface Engineering University of Siegen Siegen, 57068 Germany

Sean Garner (S’95–M’98) received the B.Eng. degree in engineering physics (applied laser and optics) from Stevens Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, in 1993, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (electrophysics) from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1998. Since 1998, he has been working in the area of materials processing and devices at the Science and Technology Center, Corning Inc., Corning, NY. He has co-authored over 80 journal articles and conference presentations, and he is currently leading efforts at Corning investigating flexible device substrates. Dr. Garner is a founding co-chairman for the Rochester IEEE-LEOS Chapter, and currently chairman of the IEEE Photonics Society (formerly, IEEE LEOS) Displays committee.

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Chung-Chih Wu (M’08) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1997. He is currently a Full Professor and the Department Associate Chair of Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He also holds joint appointments with Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, and Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering of National Taiwan University. He has conducted researches and published over 100 journal articles related to organic semiconductors for optoelectronic and electronic devices, flexible and transparent TFTs, flat panel displays, and nanoscience and technologies. Prof. Wu has served on many conference committees, including as the MRS symposium organizers and as the general program chair of 2009 International Display Manufacturing Conference sponsored by the Society of Information Display (SID) . In 2007, he received the Distinguished Research Award from National Science Council of Taiwan. Yongtaek Hong (S’94–M’06) received the B.S. and M.S. in electronics engineering, from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1994 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2003. From 2003 to 2006, he was a senior research scientist at Display Science & Technology Center, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY. He has been an Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, since 2006. He has more than 90 authored and co-authored international journal papers and international conference presentations. His research interests are thin-film electronic devices, printed electronics, and flexible electronics in display and sensor applications. Dr. Hong received Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies Scholarship from 1997 to 2002, College of Engineering Graduate Student Distinguished Achievement Awards from University of Michigan in 2003, and IEEE Electron Devices Society George E. Smith Award in 2006. He is a member of SID, KIDS, and SPIE. Franky So (M’05–SM’06) received the B.A degree in physics from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, the M.S. degree in materials science from MIT, Cambridge, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. After his graduation in 1991, he was a research scientist at Hoechst Celanese Research Division working on polymer electro-optical modulators and organic light emitting devices. In 1993, he joined Motorola Phoenix Corporate Laboratories working on organic light emitting devices (OLED) for flat panel displays. He was then promoted to be the Program Manager responsible for the R&D activities in OLED technology development. He was also instrumental to the development of the world’s first OLED phones made by Motorola. In 2001, he joined OSRAM Opto Semiconductors and then became the Head of OLED Research. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida. He has over 50 publications, 52 issued patents and another 20 patent applications pending. During his tenure at Motorola, Dr. So received the Distinguished Innovator Award and the Master Innovator Award. He is a Fellow of SPIE. He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE/OSA JOURNAL OF DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY and an Associate Editor of Materials Science and Engineering Reports. Xin Jiang received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in materials science (semiconductor and inorganic materials) from Jilin University in 1983 and from Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986. He carried out his doctoral work in Research Centre Jülich, Germany and received the Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) degree in physics from Technical University (RWTH) Aachen, Germany, in 1990. In 1998 he performed the Habilitation and obtained the Dr. rer. nat. habil. degree degreefrom Technical University Braunschweig, Germany. Since 2003, he has been serving as a Professor and the Chair holder of The Institute of Materials Science and Surface Engineering, University of Siegen, Germany. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles and holds 13 European and U.S. patents in the fields of diamond CVD, super-hard and functional thin films, interface and nanomaterials.