This is homepage of Professor Jerzy Kanicki's "Organic and Molecular Electronics" laboratory in the EECS department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. We are part of the Solid-State Electronics Laboratory within ECE division of the EECS department.

This research group was established when Dr. Jerzy Kanicki joined the University of Michigan in the fall of 1994 after working for twelve years at the IBM Research Division T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York.

During the first five years this group, in collaboration with the flat panel industry, was doing leading work on the hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin-film transistor (TFT) active-matrix liquid crystal displays (AM-LCDs). Both the transmissive and reflective flat panel displays were investigated.

Since 2000 this group is doing fundamental and applied research on organic and molecular electronics including organic light-emitting devices (OLEDSs and organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). Solution-processed organic materials are only considered for these devices. The OLED application to active-matrix light-emitting displays (AM-OLEDs) also being actively investigated.

Today this group, in addition to organic electronics, continues to be interested in improving a-Si:H TFTs and active-matrix arrays technology (including electrical properties and stability, low temperature processing, and new device and circuit structures) for flat panel displays on flexible plastic substrates.

Future research will focus on the organic and molecular circuits and devices with the length scale ranging from 10 to 1000 nm to be fabricated at low temperature and cost over flexible plastic substrates. To realize such devices and circuits, nanoscale processing and characterization of the organic materials, surfaces and interfaces, and self-assembly of the functional molecular and macromolecular compounds on atomic and molecular scales are need.

Overall, our future research will be by nature and by design collaborative and will crosscut several fields of expertise. In collaboration with the future international organic electronics industry, we expect to develop new, that is not yet part of the common knowledge in the traditional inorganic electronics industry, exciting applications based on discoveries to be made within this group in organic and molecular electronics research field of study.