Electronic Devices and Systems


Welcome to the research unit of Prof. Aghassi-Hagmann in which we explore electronic devices and systems in future technologies with a special focus on printed electronics. We are an interdisciplanary group of electrical engineers, physicists, material scientists and computer scientists located at KIT campus north working on printed materials, novel nanomaterials, micro/nano-structured devices, additive manufacturing techniques and systems in the field of future electronic technologies. We strive for gaining understanding from materials to device level and to develop solutions for electronic, bioelectronic and energy applications.

If you are interested in our research or seek job oppertunities do not hesitate to contact us.

News

KIT Science Week 2023

„Do-it-yourself” Workshop zur gedruckten Elektronik: Elektronik drucken – geht das?

Winzige elektronische Sicherheitsetiketten oder flexible Displays kosten- und umweltschonend drucken – ist das Zukunftsmusik? Nicht bei uns! Am KIT erforschen wir spezielle funktionale Druckverfahren für Nanomaterialien, die ähnlich wie ein Laser- oder Tintenstrahldrucker funktionieren. Aber anstatt Seiten mit Buchstaben zu bedrucken, erzeugen wir zum Beispiel Transistoren, Sensoren oder ganze elektronische Systeme. Erfahrt in unserem Workshop, wie und wo solche Elemente in der Chemie, Physik, Biologie und Elektrotechnik zum Einsatz kommen. Wir drucken zusammen Leiterbahnen, farbwechselnde Materialien und erzeugen daraus funktionale elektronische Komponenten. Diese funktionale Komponenten werden wir dann mikroskopieren und elektrisch testen.

Wir freuen uns auf Eure Fragen und Diskussionsbeiträge! Uns interessiert besonders, wie Ihr die Nachhaltigkeit der eingesetzten Materialien und Druckverfahren einschätzt.

Anmeldung erforderlich: bis zum 25.09.2023: sophie sauva∂kit edu

Zielgruppe: Jugendliche ab 16 Jahre

Zeit: Während der KIT Science Week am Freitag, 13.10.2023 von 14:30 Uhr bis 17:30 Uhr

Ort: Institut für Nanotechnologie, Geb. 640 Raum 0-341, KIT Campus Nord

  Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1,76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen

   

DAAD International Summer School

Printed Hybrid Photonic & Electronic Structures: Enabling Technology Needs of Today & Tomorrow

Apply now for the International Summer School “Printed Hybrid Photonic & Electronic Structures: Enabling Technology Needs of Today & Tomorrow” from July 22 to August 05, 2022 at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany! Are you advanced Bachelor or Master student of physics, electrical/mechanical engineering or material science? Would you like to expand your knowledge on nanophotonic materials, metamaterials and printed optoelectronics like perovskite solar cells? The International Summer School is a great opportunity to learn more about this fascinating research field and get to know leading researchers and international students. Applications are possible until April 30, 2022. The Summer School is organized by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The cooperation partners are the Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics, the Cluster of Excellence 3D Matter Made to Order and the Ensemble3 Centre of Excellence.
Please follow this LINK for further information.

   

Tutorial on Using our Flexible Hybrid Organic Printed Electronics PDK (FH_OPDK)

Within the 2Horisons BMBF-Project on printed sensor nodes the consortium (Cadence, KIT, BASF, IL and University of Heidelberg) is offering a tutorial on using Flexible Hybrid Organic Printed Electronics PDK (FH_OPDK) to design circuits for Integrated Sensor Platforms. We have developed a dedicated design kit, suitable for running in commercial CAD Tools (Cadence Virtuoso) which supports a full front to back design flow. The design flow includes schematic entry, initial simulation, and layout generation for prototyping. Additional we have developed dedicated transistor models, capacitance models as well as parasitic extraction to allow for high precision modelling.

In the video on the right you can see the creation of a demonstrator using the FH_OPDK. During the tutorial you will be able to try out creating designs using this PDK and Cadence tools installed in a cloud environment. The PDK can be downloaded unter our section Software.

 

 

link to youtube tutorial 2Horisons

Click here to watch the video.

Research Topics and Groups

3D Grafik - electrolyte gated device C. Grupe
Printed Electronics and Circuits

Inkjet Printing, electrolyte gated devices, modelling and simulation, electrical characterization

Group Dr. Gabriel Cadilha Marques
Printable
Scanning Probe Lithography for Biomaterials and Bioelectronics

Dip-pen nanolithography, surface and device functionalization, biomedical diagnostic and sensing, microfluidic integration

Group PD Dr. Dr. Michael Hirtz
Fotolia
Nanomaterials for electronic and energy applications

under construction

  

     

Group Dr. Ben Breitung

Publications - Editor's picks

Schematic functional overview of the device behavior
Inkjet-Printed Memristor

An inkjet-printed tungsten oxide memristor is developed, which exhibits either digital-type switching for data storage or analog-type memristor behavior for neuromorphic computing.

Advanced Functional Materials
Schematic process of immobilization of a cucurbit[8]uril-based rotaxane chemosensor into microarrays for sensing of trypthophan in blood serum.CC BY 4.0
Biosensing

Schematic process of immobilization of a cucurbit[8]uril-based rotaxane chemosensor into microarrays for sensing of trypthophan in blood serum.

Nature Communications
Top: Timeline of the development of HEMs; Bottom: Materials libraries of HEMs
High-Entropy Materials

High-Entropy Energy Materials in the Age of Big Data: A Critical Guide to Next-Generation Synthesis and Applications

Advanced Energy Materials
Direct laser printing of microelectronic structures.
Laser printed microelectronics

Laser printing with three different inks, for the semiconductor ZnO and the metals Pt and Ag, as a facile process for fabricating printed functional electronic devices with minimum feature sizes below 1 µm.

Nature Communications
Correlated chemical / physical analysis of printed liquid metal lines on gold electrodes.CC BY 4.0
Liquid Metal in Printed Electronics

A comprehensive, correlated study of the interaction of liquid metals with gold as conventional electrode material, yielding crucial information on the interaction processes.

Small
Top: Operando XRD analysis of the electrochemical extraction/insertion of Na ions from/into HE-PBA; Bottom: Schematic illustration of the crystal structure of HE-PBA.
High‐Entropy Metal–Organic Frameworks for Highly Reversible Sodium Storage

A new approach is presented to substantially improve the electrochemical properties of PBAs by introducing high entropy into the crystal structure.

Advanced Materials