Audio Interview: Chemists Advance Organic Semiconductor Processing

Professor Richard McCullough and his team of chemists at Carnegie Mellon University, have developed ways to make certain plastics excellent electrical conductors.

Alexander E. Braun, Senior Editor -- Semiconductor International, 6/30/2007

Senior Editor Alexander E. Braun interviewed Professor Richard McCullough, who leads a chemical research effort focused on organic semiconductors at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).
 
McCullough and his team of chemists have developed ways to make certain plastics excellent electrical conductors for applications such as RFID and flexible e-book displays. "We've come up with a new process for conductive polymers, which are attached to typical commodity plastics used in everyday life," he said. "By attaching these plastics together, we have demonstrated the very good physical properties of typical plastics for processing, shaping and molding. At the same time, they have excellent electronic properties, making them useful as transistors that can be printed. The process also drives self-assembly."
 
Listen to the audio interview (Runtime: 6:00)