Plenary Speakers

Semiconducting materials for ductile transistor-based opto/bioelectronic applications

Antonio Facchetti is the Hightower Chair in Biopolymers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer of Flexterra Corporation and an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University. Facchetti obtained his Laurea degree in chemistry cum laude and a PhD degree in chemical sciences from the University of Milan. He has published more than 600 research articles, 15 book chapters, and holds more than 120 patents. He received the ACS Award for Creative Invention, the Giulio Natta Gold Medal of the Italian Chemical Society, the team IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe Award, the corporate Flextech Award. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, National Academy of Engineering, European Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Inventors, AAAS, PMSE, Kavli, and RSC. His interests include synthesis of organic/hybrid opto-electronic/energy materials, solution processing of thin-films, semiconductor devices, bioelectronics and sustainable technologies.

Evolution of the TFT

Arokia Nathan, Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, Overseas National-Level Talent, IEEE Fellow and 2020 EDS J.J Ebers Award winner. He received his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from University of Alberta, Canada in 1988. Since then, he has worked as Chair Professor at the University of Waterloo, University College London, and University of Cambridge. He is now the Chair Professor of Shandong University. Professor Arokia Nathan’s research interests lie in the application of nano-optoelectronic materials and devices, display technology and thin-film transistors (TFT), and he has made a number of research achievements in low-temperature thin-film devices fabrication and their integration with flexible substrate. His approach to engineering research and development is broad and comprehensive, encompassing fundamental device science, process development and manufacturing, and device and circuit inventions to achieve new systems. In addition, he addresses the wide application of large-area flexible electronics through modelling and electronic design automation tools EDA.

Van der Waals interfaces on 2D semiconductors for energy efficient electronics

Manish Chhowalla is the Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are in the fundamental studies of atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In particular, his group studies the properties of different phases of 2D TMDs. He has demonstrated that it is possible to induce phase transformations in atomically thin materials and utilise phases with disparate properties for field effect transistors, catalysis, and energy storage. Prof. Chhowalla is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), Materials Research Society, and Churchill College. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Applied Materials Today, Associate Editor of ACS Nano, and is now the Editor-in-Chief of MRS Energy & Sustainability. He has been on the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers since 2016. Prior to Cambridge, he was a Professor at Rutgers University in NJ, USA.

Development of high-performance p-type metal oxide and halide perovskite transistors

Yong-Young Noh is Namgo Chair Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering of Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH). He received his PhD degree in 2005 from GIST and then worked at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, UK, as a postdoctoral associate. Afterwards, he worked at ETRI as a senior researcher, as assistant professor at Hanbat National University, and as associate professor at Dongguk University. His research interest is developing novel semiconductors for field-effect transistors, photodetectors, and light-emitting diodes. He is fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. 

Monolithic thin film transistors for next-generation electronics

Ioannis (John) Kymissis is the Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical
Engineering at Columbia University and Vice Dean for Infrastructure
and Innovation of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering.  He
graduated with his SB, M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. His M.Eng.
thesis was performed as a co-op at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab on
organic thin-film transistors, and his Ph.D. was obtained in the
Microsystems Technology Lab at MIT, working on field-emission
displays. After graduation, he spent three years as a postdoc in MIT's
Laboratory for Organic Optics and Electronics, working on a variety of
organic electronic devices, and also as a senior engineer for QD
Vision (later acquired by Samsung Electronics) working on the
integration of quantum dots in displays. He joined the faculty at
Columbia University in electrical engineering as an assistant
professor in 2006, and served as chair of the department from
2020-2024. He is a fellow of the IEEE, Optica, the Society for
Information Display (SID), SPIE, and the National Academy of
Inventors; and is currently the president of SID.