Recent years have witnessed significant research efforts in flexible organic and amorphous-metal-oxide analog electronics, in view of its formidable potential for applications such as smart sensor systems and the Internet of Things. This talk will provide an overview of this growing research area. After discussing the properties of organic and amorphous-metal-oxide technologies relevant to analog electronics, this talk will focus on their application to analog amplifiers. Material-performance relationships will be also discussed in detail, highlighting the strengths and challenges of organic and amorphous-metal-oxide semiconductors for analog electronics. A particular aspect that will be examined concerns low-voltage circuit operation and its relation to charge trapping and trap passivation. This talk will finally provide a fresh look at the immediate opportunities of the field (i.e., flexible amplifiers for sensing applications, integration with digital processing and printed batteries), and will identify the remaining challenges for organic and amorphous-metal-oxide technologies to become the platform of choice for flexible analog electronics.

Vincenzo Pecunia is Principal Investigator and Associate Professor at the International Henning Sirringhaus Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronics, Soochow University (China). He is also a Visiting Researcher at the Optoelectronics Group, University of Cambridge (UK). He earned his Bachelor's and Master's in Electronics Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy). Subsequently, he obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK), where he also worked as postdoctoral scientist.
Pecunia’s research has addressed the physics of printable optoelectronic materials, with a focus on polymer and amorphous-metal-oxide semiconductors, and their application to thin-film transistors and large-area electronics. The Thin-Film Optoelectronics group that he leads is active in the charge transport physics and photoelectronic properties of solution-processed semiconductors, related optoelectronic devices (e.g., solar cells, photodetectors, and thin-film transistors), and their application to printed electronics.
Pecunia’s research has led to numerous publications in high-impact peer-reviewed journals. Drawing from his research experience, he has recently authored a monograph for Cambridge University Press titled Organic and Amorphous-Metal-Oxide Flexible Analogue Electronics (www.cambridge.org/pecunia).