Keynote Speakers
Ions, Electrons and Polymers: Fast Ion Insertion Towards GHz Iontronics
The charge density in electrochemically active polymers can be modulated over a wide range by ion insertion. In inorganic materials this process is slow and energetically costly. Polymers on the other hand can insert ions with minimal strain. Furthermore, the soft nature of the material and its microstructure alllows fast ion modulation. As a result of this combination, polymer-based “iontronics”, ie devices relying on the modulation of electronic properties via electrolytes, may be able to reach frequencies well into MHz and possibly into the GHz regime. I will show examples of fast iontronic devcies, modulating electronic properties within ~10ns with accompanying structural characterization to explain their operation. Polymer-based iontronics could develop into a technology that takes advantage of the features of conjugated polymers (e.g. a relatively open structure) to enable unique functionalities such as deep optical modulation or brain-like computation.
Prof Alberto Salleo
Professor and Department Chair
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Stanford University
Alberto Salleo is currently Professor of Materials Science and Department Chair at Stanford University. Alberto Salleo holds a Laurea degree in Chemistry from La Sapienza and graduated as a Fulbright Fellow with a PhD in Materials Science from UC Berkeley in 2001. From 2001 to 2005 Salleo was first post-doctoral research fellow and successively member of research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. In 2005 Salleo joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford as an Assistant Professor. While at Stanford, Salleo won the NSF Career Award, the 3M Untenured Faculty Award, the SPIE Early Career Award, the Tau Beta Pi Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford’s highest teaching award. He has been a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2015 and was elected to the European Academy of Sciences in 2021, a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2022, and a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2023.
Organic Mixed Conductors for Bioelectronics
Organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs) have gained considerable interest in bioelectronics, power electronics, circuits, and neuromorphic computing. These organic, often polymer-based, semiconductors rely on a combination of ionic transport, electronic transport, and high volumetric charge storage capacity to yield functional devices. Furthermore, the are often soft, can be integrated as hydrogel or elastomeric composites, and can take on form factors not possible with traditional electronic materials. In this talk, I will highlight recent synthetic and processing approaches used to tailor electrochemical device properties revealing new classes of OMIEC active materials, as well as new opportunities enabled by such advances. Control of ionic transport and trapping for example presents a promising avenue towards the development of non-volatile electrochemical transistors, which can mimic biological synapses. In addition, the bulk transport properties of OMIECs enable device concepts that achieve co-localization of sensing with signal processing including amplification of electrophysiological and biochemical sensors, and devices that readily integrate with biological systems from lipids and proteins to cells and tissues, opening exciting directions in health diagnostics and therapeutics.
Prof Jonathan Rivnay
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University
Jonathan Rivnay is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern University. Jonathan earned his B.Sc. in 2006 from Cornell University. He then moved to Stanford University where he earned a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, studying the structure and electronic transport properties of organic electronic materials. In 2012, he joined the Department of Bioelectronics at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne in France as a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow, working on conducting polymer-based devices for bioelectronics. Jonathan spent 2015-2016 as a member of the research staff in the Printed Electronics group at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC, a Xerox Co.) before joining the faculty at Northwestern in 2017. He is a recipient of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (2018), and a research fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2019), and was named a Materials Research Society Outstanding Early Career Investigator (2020).
Tracking nitrogen in soil with printed electronics
Plant-available nitrogen, often in the form of nitrate, is an essential nutrient for plant growth, but excessive nitrate in the environment and watershed has harmful impacts on both human health and natural ecosystems. Current nitrate measurements techniques, in both soil and water quality monitoring, involve taking samples from the environment or field to a lab, where they can be analyzed with chromatography or spectrographic methods. Such measurements are highly accurate, but they are also expensive and labor-intensive, and give data for only one point in time and space. A distributed network of nitrate sensors could better quantify and monitor nitrogen in agriculture and the environment. Here, I will discuss how a suit of printed sensors can be distributed over large areas and used to track nitrogen and other drivers to nitrox oxide emission in soil.
Prof Ana Claudia Arias
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
Prof Arias received her PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge, UK in 2001. Prior to that, she received her master and bachelor degrees in Physics from the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil in 1997 and 1995 respectively.
She joined the University of California, Berkeley in January of 2011. Prof. Arias was the Manager of the Printed Electronic Devices Area and a Member of Research Staff at PARC, a Xerox Company. She went to PARC, in 2003, from Plastic Logic in Cambridge, UK where she led the semiconductor group.
Her research focuses on the use of electronic materials processed from solution in flexible electronic systems. She uses printing techniques to fabricate flexible large area electronic devices and sensors.
Is the Future 2D?
Semiconductor sales reached over $570 billion worldwide in 2022, a gigantic industry that keeps on growing with increasing demand for faster, more powerful, and smaller chips. However, as we keep scaling CMOS transistors, the silicon (Si) transistor will soon reach its physical limit, and there is a pressing need to find an alternative post-Si material to enable the continuation of Moore’s Law. Furthermore, as we scale our interconnects and further constrain our metals, resistivity soars, there is a critical need to alleviate this resistance hit. As we search for this set of next generation materials, 2D materials such as Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs), at angstrom thicknesses, have been shown in academia to possess remarkable properties. Could 2D materials play a role in future electronic devices?
In this talk, I will present some of Intel's published research on 2D materials focusing on TMDs, from synthesis and characterization to innovative applications. How each year, we take a step further to attaining our vision of stacked 2D nanoribbons, while also continuously finding novel applications for 2D materials. I will demonstrate, that in Components Research at Intel, we are always looking for ways to improve future technologies and enable the continuation of Moore's Law.
Dr Carl Naylor
SRC Program Manager & Research Scientist
Intel
Carl H. Naylor is the SRC Program manager, alternate SAB rep for JUMP2.0, and Research Scientist with Intel Corporation. He received his B.A. and M.S. degree in physics from the University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France), followed by a Ph.D degree in physics from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA). He has held multiple research positions with universities across the globe: in southeast Asia, western Europe, and across north America.
He joined Intel as a Senior Research Engineer with Intel Components Research in the Novel Device Materials group, where he developed and synthesized novel nanomaterials, and searched for unique applications where they can be implemented across an Intel chip. He is now with the Corporate University Research team focused on Intel’s external engagements with Academia.
He holds over 50 co-authored publications in peer reviewed journals, over 50 U.S. patents filed, and numerous industrial and academic accolades.