ANTEC Speaker Dr. Young Kim to discuss organic electronics.
Press Release Summary:
Dr. Young Kim, a polymer scientist specializing in applications of plastics in electronics, will address plenary session at SPE ANTEC® 2011 conference, which will be held May 1-5. Dr. Kim will speak on topic Paradigm Shift Towards Organic Electronics. While advantages of organic electronics compared to conventionally used inorganics are numerous, Dr. Kim will review critical issues he confronted in striving to apply polymers as electronic materials, including chemical and physical stability.
Original Press Release:
Polymer Scientist Dr. Young Kim Will Discuss Cutting-edge Electronics Applications in Plenary Address at SPE ANTEC® 2011
NEWTOWN, CT, U.S.A., - Dr. Young Kim, a polymer scientist specializing in applications of plastics in electronics, will address a plenary session of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) ANTEC® 2011 conference, it was announced today by SPE.
Dr. Kim is director of the Material Technology Center of the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, the central research institute for the South Korea-based Samsung Group. His offices are at the Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. facility in Ridgefield Park, NJ, U.S.A.
The world's largest technical conference, ANTEC will be held May 1-5, 2011 at the Hynes Convention Center and the Boston Marriott Copley Center Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Kim will speak on Monday, May 2, 2011.
A pioneer in the application of polymers in electronics, Dr. Kim will speak on the topic Paradigm Shift Towards Organic Electronics. While the advantages of organic electronics compared to conventionally used inorganics are numerous (agile molecular-level design and synthesis, facile fabrication options, and abundant raw material supply, for example), Dr. Kim will review the critical issues he confronted in striving to apply polymers as electronic materials.
Chief among these is that of the chemical and physical stability of organic electronics materials. While polymer materials have been used in passive applications like electronic packaging for some time, use of them in semiconductor chips, with their faster clock speed and higher power consumption, requires better thermal stability and lower thermal extension materials. Recently there have been promising uses of organic materials in active applications such as POLED displays, hybrid photovoltaics, thin-film transistors, and polymer memories.
Prior to joining Samsung, Dr. Kim dedicated himself to the field of polymeric materials research at Du Pont for over 20 years. He is credited with more than 40 reviewed papers and book chapters and 20 patents.
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