Bob Street
"Inventor of digital x-ray detector" who received the 2010 Prize for Industrial Applications of Physics for developing proven large-area electronic materials and device technologies. ![]()
Printed electronics opportunity (and challenge)
A $300 billion industry is in the making, argues Raghu Das, CEO of analyst firm IDTechEx (and the first guest contributor to PARC’s blog), about printed electronics, which offers many feature and manufacturing advantages. But how do we move from devices to products to new markets?
Keeping innovation competitive
PARC today is a commercial entity with multiple Fortune 500 and other clients. We're building our contemporary innovation model by positioning ourselves at the heart of industrial R&D, government contracts, and world-class university research. But we need to examine how the rest of the world will replicate Silicon Valley.
Organic & Printed Electronics
High-performance printed devices are achieved by materials understanding and device design that allows the formation of good dielectric/semiconductor and semiconductor/metal interfaces.
Flexible Electronics
PARC's expertise in large-area electronics extends back to the 1970s, when we began researching and developing amorphous silicon. Much of our current work involves thin film transistors and p-i-n photodiodes for flat panel display and image sensor backplanes, and solar cells.