Andrews M.P. – TechConnect Briefs

Nanostructuring Plastic Displays within the Flexible Electronics Paradigm

Andrews M.P., Frechette P., Fong B., Shih I., Plastic Knowledge (formerly Silk Displays), CA

This presentation describes our advances in fabricating a fully functional color, plastic liquid crystal display that uses an all-inorganic thin film transistor array based on a nanocrystalline II-VI semiconductor. The display itself represents an interesting [...]

Light Induced Self-Inscription (LISI) in Organo-silica Network Glasses and Nanocomposite Polymers

Andrews M.P., Belanger N., Manseau M.-P., Duxin N., Maron E., Lofgreen J., van Veggel F.C.J.M., McGill University, CA

This talk focuses on two classes of nanocomposite media that exhibit Light Induced Self Inscription. We describe LISI in sol-gel derived photosensitive glasses containing nanodispersions of zirconia, titania and noble metal nanoparticles. Waveguiding at 488 [...]

Functional Plastic Liquid Crystal Displays from II-VI Semiconductor Nanocomposite Thin Film Transistors on Polymers

MacNab F., Frechette P., Fong B., Li T., Shih I., Andrews M.P., McGill University and Silk Displays Inc, CA

This talk describes how II-VI semiconductors can be deposited from solution to create all-inorganic TFTs on plastic. We discuss semiconductor film growth mechanisms that arise from competition among nanoparticle formation, particle-particle accretion in solution and [...]

Patterning Wrinkle Architectures in Nanocomposite Glasses with Self-Inscribing Guided Waves

Andrews M.P., Belanger N., McGill University, CA

We have been exploring ways in which light induced self inscribed (LISI) waveguides can impose constraints on wrinkle patterns when nanocomposite hybrid sol-gel glass films become unstable to perturbations of a certain wavelength, which reflects [...]