MaWi-Kolloquium (Hybrid)

Dr. Jesús Ricote  
Senior Researcher

Materials Science Institute of Madrid
Spanish National Research Council

Approaches to integrate oxides in flexible devices

Organic compounds are mostly used in flexible electronics. However, the demand for high-performance flexible devices has driven the exploration of oxides as active layers, which offer a wide range of functional properties. Chemical Solution Deposition (CSD) is not only a method that produces oxide films at low cost with a high stoichiometry control, but also allows their direct deposition on flexible substrates. To achieve the latter, it is necessary the use of different processing strategies that favours the crystallization of oxides at low temperatures, compatible with plastic substrates.

In this talk I will analyse the work carried out in our research group over the years on the so called low-temperature processing of oxide films. Although effective to deposit functional films directly on some flexible substrates, the small grain size obtained may affect their performance. Therefore, we explore as well other approaches to integrate oxide films in flexible substrates that withstand the relatively high crystallization temperatures required, and alternative transferring techniques.

About the speaker

Jesús Ricote is senior researcher at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-CSIC) and currently holds the position of deputy director of this Institute, recently accredited as Excellence Centre "Severo Ochoa" by the Spanish National Research Agency. He is also member of the Management Committee of the Spanish Advanced Materials and Nanomaterials Technological Platform and serves as Financial Chair of the Ferroelectrics Technical Standing Committee of the IEEE-UFCC Society.

Ricote receives his PhD degree in Physics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 1994. After a short postdoctoral stay at the Centre d’Elaboration et des Études Structurales de Materiaux, CNRS (Toulouse. France), he joined the Nanotechnology Group of Cranfield University (United Kingdom) as research officer. Later he obtained a postdoctoral fellowship at the Univ. du Maine-Le Mans (France), to finally join the Materials Science Institute of Madrid. His research interests include the quantitative microstructural analysis of ferroelectric polycrystalline materials with XRD, electron and scanning force microscopies. At present his work is focused on the study of functional oxide films for flexible devices.

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