Subject: PARC Forum: Thursday Jan 27, "Printed Plastic Electronic Devices" Dr. Robert Street, PARC

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:31:23 PST

PARC Forum: Thursday January 27, 2005 at 4:00 PM, George E. Pake Auditorium, Palo Alto, CA
 
       "Printed Plastic Electronic Devices"
 
       By Robert Street, Senior Research Fellow, Palo Alto Research Center
         
This forum is OPEN to the public.
 
ABSTRACT:  
	Semiconductor electronics are not typically made from plastics, but two forces are combining to make this happen. The rapidly growing flat panel display and TV industry needs transistors with modest performance that can be made inexpensively, and the electronic performance of semiconducting plastics has improved dramatically over the past decade or so. One key attraction of plastic electronics is that devices can be made by ink-jet printing in processes more like a printing press than a silicon foundry. The talk will describe the applications of plastic electronics, the key innovations that made these possible, and PARC's technology for jet-printed plastic displays.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: 
     Bob Street received a BA and Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge University and then worked at Sheffield University and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart before coming to PARC in 1976. He is a Senior Research Fellow with research interests in large area electronics, including amorphous silicon, flat panel x-ray image sensors and more recently, printed organic semiconductors (see http://www.parc.com/research/eml/projects/lae/plastic.html).

ABOUT PARC FORUM:
 
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UPCOMING FORUMS:
FEBRUARY 3, 2005  "REVELations - 2005: Quilt Art & Fiber Sculpture from Faultline Studio Artists" 

Faultline Studio Artists: Claudia Comay, Marilyn Merkt Felber, Sue Fox, Charlotte Grossman, Karen Lusnak, Nancy Pagani, Gerri Mann Peterson, Nina Shortridge, Alexandra Von Burg

Many of us know the beautiful look of traditional 19th Century American quilts. But what does 21st Century quilt art look like? Faultline Studio Artists, a studio art group in the San Francisco Bay Area, have installed their largest collection of quilt art and fiber sculpture in one venue at PARC, for showing from January through March, 2005.  The artists are the subjects of a documentary film entitled "Woman's Work: Making Quilts-Creating Art" by Emmy award-winning film editor and Faultline Studio Artist Charlotte Grossman. The film premiered during Women's History Month on KQED television in March 2004 and is currently showing on public television stations nationwide.

A reception in the exhibit areas to follow the February 3 Forum 5:00-6:30 pm.

FEBRUARY 10 to APRIL 7:  Upcoming series of speakers on sustainable/ecologically sound technology development.  Speakers will include Prof. Nate Lewis (Cal Tech), Michael Braungart, David Gottfried (WorldBuild), Barbara Waugh (HP), and Tim Woodward (Nth Power, LLC venture capital firm).
 
-Frank Torres
 
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