Plastic Electronics

Prof. Henning Sirringhaus

Many products are made from plastic polymers. You use plastics to carry home your shopping or to play with your rubber duck in the bath, but you probably have not yet thought about whether plastics can also be used to make electronics. This talk will discuss how some plastic polymers can replace conventional silicon to realize flexible electronic devices such as plastic displays or simple computing chips. It will discuss some of the underlying physics, and also when, and in which form you can expect plastic electronics to appear in your home.

Henning Sirringhaus is the Hitachi Professor of Electron Device Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory working in the field of plastic electronics (www-oe.phy.cam.ac.uk/) He is a co-founder of the spin-off company Plastic Logic Ltd. (www.plasticlogic.com).