John A. Rogers receives Mid-Career Researcher Award for stretchable electronics
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John A. Rogers receives Mid-Career Researcher Award for stretchable electronics
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he Materials Research Society (MRS) has named John A. Rogers, director of the Seitz Materials Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), to receive the Mid-Career Researcher Award for “fundamental and applied contributions to materials, mechanics designs, and assembly techniques for stretchable/flexible electronic systems.” Rogers will be recognized during the Award Ceremony at the 2013 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. The Mid-Career Researcher Award, endowed by Aldrich Materials Science, recognizes exceptional achievements in materials research made by mid-career professionals. Rogers, who holds the Swanlund Chair at UIUC with a primary appointment in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, changed the way researchers think about the possibilities in the field of flexible/stretchable electronics. In particular, he established comprehensive routes to semiconductor devices and integrated systems that
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offer the operational performance of conventional, wafer-based technologies, but with the ability to bend, fold, twist, stretch, and wrap complex, curvilinear, and time-dynamic surfaces in ways that would otherwise be impossible. By pioneering the use of assemblies of semiconductor nanostructures, Rogers enabled electronic/optoelectronic devices to be formed on amorphous, lowtemperature substrates with performance that is superior, by several orders of magnitude, to that possible with alternative materials. The materials he used range from nanomembranes/ribbons of monocrystalline silicon and gallium arsenide to arrays/networks of single-walled carbon nanotubes as effective thin films for high-performance electronic devices. Defining strategies to combine these classes of “hard” semiconductor elements with soft substrates (e.g., sheets of plastic or slabs of rubber), Rogers produced hybrid materials constructs with mechanical properties defined almost exclusively by the substrates. He demonstrated, for example, that ultrathin
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archeology, biological materials, disease diagnosis, and pharmaceuticals. Rabolt became the founding chair of the department at Delaware where he is now active as a Karl W. and Renate Böer Named Professor. He received his PhD degree in chemical physics from Southern Illinois University. Chase, retired from DuPont, is now a Research Professor in the department. He received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Princeton University.
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