The use of lasers for industrial, scientific, and medical applications has received an enormous amount of attention due to the advantageous ability of precise parameter control for heat transfer. It has realized unique photothermal and photochemical reactions with various types of materials, including metal nanomaterials, ceramics, graphene, polymers, and perovskites, enabling the substantial performance improvement of human electronics.
For human electronics, low thermal budget issue of the soft materials (only enduring 100 Celcius for PET) hinders high performance device. Ultrafast and selective annealing feature of the laser enabled to focus high thermal energy on specific area without damaging soft substrate. Our group developed Laser Lift-off(LLO) technology to provide breakthrough of inorganic-based high performance soft electronics. By using light-reacting layer and laser irradiation through transparent sacrificial substrate, high performance flexible oxide TFT, flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator and flexible memory have been transferred from bulk substrate to plastic substrates.
HAND set up one of the best laser facilities including excimer, UV, Green, IR DPSS lasers and Flash Lamp for human electronics. With outstanding light annealing system of HAND, our group also research light-material interaction, light-induced flexible electrodes, laser dopant activation for monolithic 3D integration and photo-pyrolysis for electromagnetic shield materials.
The use of lasers for industrial, scientific, and medical applications has received an enormous amount of attention due to the advantageous ability of precise parameter control for heat transfer. It has realized unique photothermal and photochemical reactions with various types of materials, including metal nanomaterials, ceramics, graphene, polymers, and perovskites, enabling the substantial performance improvement of human electronics.
For human electronics, low thermal budget issue of the soft materials (only enduring 100 Celcius for PET) hinders high performance device. Ultrafast and selective annealing feature of the laser enabled to focus high thermal energy on specific area without damaging soft substrate. Our group developed Laser Lift-off(LLO) technology to provide breakthrough of inorganic-based high performance soft electronics. By using light-reacting layer and laser irradiation through transparent sacrificial substrate, high performance flexible oxide TFT, flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator and flexible memory have been transferred from bulk substrate to plastic substrates.
HAND set up one of the best laser facilities including excimer, UV, Green, IR DPSS lasers and Flash Lamp for human electronics. With outstanding light annealing system of HAND, our group also research light-material interaction, light-induced flexible electrodes, laser dopant activation for monolithic 3D integration and photo-pyrolysis for electromagnetic shield materials.
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