Organic Electronics Technologies: Taxonomy and Worksheet
(illustrative)

The following framework has been used by industry and ATP to organize and illustrate the potential scope of organic electronics technologies across electrical and optical system functions. This taxonomy is for illustrative purposes only, and should not be viewed as being either exhaustive or complete.

System / Function

Topic, Device, Structure

(examples)

What Needs to Happen?

(technology/business)

Who Needs to be Involved?

(technology/business)

Why is ATP Needed?

Imaging / Patterning

Resists, sub-100 nm

Substrates

Photoconductors

AR Coatings

Non-lithographic Imaging

Micro-optic Devices, Lenses

Logic

Transistors

Dielectrics -

Low & High K

Flex Substrates

Optical Correlators

Memory

3D Storage

.

Ferroelectrics

Optical Substrates

Inter-connection

Optical Fibers

Planar Waveguides

Optical Splitters, Modulators, Filters

Electrical Conductors

Electronic Substrates

 

System / Function

Topic, Device, Structure

(examples)

What Needs to Happen?

(technology/business)

Who Needs to be Involved?

(technology/business)

Why is ATP Needed?

Power

Synthetic Electrodes, Electrolytes

 

Capacitors, Resistors

Optical Amplifiers

Display / Illumination

Electronic Paper/ Liquid Crystals, PDLCs

 

OLEDs, Organic Lasers

Viewing Screens

Broad-area Illumination

Field Protection / Confinement

Shielding

 

Cladding Layers

Sensing

Electroactive Coatings

 

Optical Coatings

Acuating

 

???

 

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