Printable Forms of Single Crystal Inorganic Semiconductors for High Performance Flexible Electronics

John A. Rogers, obtained BA and BS degrees in chemistry and in physics from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. From MIT, he received SM degrees in physics and in chemistry in 1992 and the PhD degree in physical chemistry in 1995. From 1995 to 1997, Rogers was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard University Society of Fellows. During this time he also served as a Director for Active Impulse Systems, a company based on his PhD research that he co-founded in 1995 and which was acquired by a large company in 1998. He joined Bell Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff in the Condensed Matter Physics Research Department in 1997, and served as Director of this department from 2000-2002. He is currently Founder Professor of Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, where he pursues his research interests in unconventional methods for micro/nanofabrication, plastic and flexible electronics and unusual photonic systems. He and colleagues recently founded a company to commercialize certain results of their research in the printed electronics area.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is one of the original public land-grant universities, chartered in the 1860's. Located about 140 miles south of Chicago, UIUC has over 38,000 students, over 1900 tenured faculty and a staff of about 5,500. The university offers more than 100 academic programs, with professional programs in business, law, library science, medicine, social work, and veterinary medicine