Nominator's project description
| Dr. Kamal Asadi from Philips Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Electronic devices of the future will incorporate large amounts of memory to account for the increasing demand on information storage. The ‘Holy Grail’ is a memory that is fast, dense, low-power and non-volatile. During his PhD research Dr. Asadi has developed an integrated solution for this demand based on a solution-processed, non-volatile, but switchable diode using a mixture of semiconducting and ferroelectric polymers. For this development Dr. Asadi received the silver medal award from the Materials Research Society in 2010. During his time at Philips Research he developed a new experiment using ferroelectric field-effect transistors as a test bed to study charge transport in semiconducting polymers at high carrier densities. His objective in Mainz will be to develop organic multiferroics: composite materials that are simultaneously ferroelectric and ferromagnetic. Developments of organic multiferroics that can be processed from solution are expected to lead to a revolution in novel switching devices such as magnetic tunnel junctions.
Dr. Asadi is hosted by Professor Paul W. Blom at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. |
