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Volume 45, Number 1, 2001
Organic electronics
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Organic thin-film transistors: A review of recent advances - Author bios

by C. D. Dimitrakopoulos and D. J. Mascaro

Biographical sketches of authors

Christos D. Dimitrakopoulos   IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598 (dimitrak@us.ibm.com). Dr. Dimitrakopoulos is currently a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, where he works on organic semiconductor devices and circuits. He has been with IBM since 1995. From 1993 to 1995 he was a postdoctoral fellow at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he worked on organic semiconductors within the Theoretical and Experimental Physics Group. In 1993 he received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in materials science from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University. He did his Ph.D. thesis research work at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. In 1989, he received his M.S. degree in materials science from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University. He received his B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1986. Dr. Dimitrakopoulos is the author of three issued patents and seven pending patents. In 2000 he received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award and his Second Plateau Invention Achievement Award. He is a member of the Materials Research Society and a member of the Board of Directors and Treaurer of the Polymer Analysis Division, Society of Plastics Engineers.

Debra J. Mascaro   Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (dlightly@mit.edu). Ms. Mascaro is a graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At the time this paper was written, she was a summer intern in the Organic Electronics group at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, working with Dr. Dimitrakopoulos. She received a B.A. degree in physics from Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota, in 1995. Her graduate research is in the area of organic field-effect transistors. Ms. Mascaro has received a National Science Foundation Fellowship and an IBM Research Fellowship.