Ana Arias

PROFILE:

Ana Claudia Arias currently manages PARC's Printed Electronic Devices group, which uses inkjet printing techniques to fabricate organic, active matrix display backplanes for paper-like displays and flexible sensors. She also serves as principal investigator for PARC’s DARPA sensor-tape program. Internationally recognized for her expertise in polymer-based electronics and printed electronics, including OLEDs, photovoltaics, and TFTs, Dr. Arias holds a doctorate in physics (polymer photovoltaics) from Cambridge University.

Prior to joining PARC, Dr. Arias served as the semiconductor materials group leader of Plastic Logic Limited, a startup company in the U.K. that develops flexible printed backplanes for displays. She received her Master’s and bachelor degrees in physics from Brazil’s Federal University of Paraná, where she focused on the use of semiconducting polymers for light emitting diodes.

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2010

All ink-jet printed polyfluorene photodiode for high illuminance applications

MRS Spring Meeting 2010

5 April 2010

Inkjet-printed, organic complementary circuits integrated with polymer mechanical sensors

ACS Meeting 2010

25 March 2010

2009

Chemically modified ink-jet printed silver electrodes for organic field-effect transistors

Applied Physics Letters

21 December 2009

Jet-printing: from drops to electronic devices

Printed Electronics USA 2009

2 December 2009

Printed Electronics Services: Application Development [overview]

1 December 2009

Targeted at companies and institutions interested in developing products based on printed electronics, this suite of services provides design and fabrication of “proof of concept” level demonstrators. Demonstrators include peripheral equipment needed to power and provide/handle input-output signals.

Printed Electronics Services: Materials Characterization and Optimization [overview]

1 December 2009

Targeted primarily at suppliers and developers of substrate materials and printable semiconductors, dielectrics and metals, this suite of services provides materials characterization and optimization for applications in displays, sensing, and processing.

Ink jet printing devices and circuits

MRS 2009 Fall Meeting

2009 November

For several years there have been many efforts to employ ink jet technologies in the fabrication of consumer electronics. The potential of displacing large and expensive pieces of electronic fabrication equipment and processes with seemingly appropriately scaled inexpensive alternatives is attractive. However, of course, the devil is in the details. Feature size, accuracy, registration, and materials all have several impacts on design rules, processing, performance, and the types of devices appropriate to the technology. Here we present a look at some of the materials and deposition challenges along with solutions developed at PARC.

Degradation mechanisms of organic ferroelectric field-effect transistors used as non-volatile memory

Journal of Applied Physics

5 November 2009

Compact model for forward subthreshold characteristics in polymer semiconductor transistors

Journal of Applied Physics

15 October 2009

Flexible printed sensor tape for diagnostics of mild traumatic brain injury

IDTechEx Printed Electronics Asia

30 September 2009

The prospects of inkjet printing for displays and sensor tapes

IS&T Digital Fabrication Conference 2009 (DF 09)

20 September 2009