Flexible electronics is a rapidly evolving technology whose goal is to provide low cost printable electronics in a flexible format. It has led to the e-book reader and new display formats and is currently being evaluated as the basis of low cost medical sensors and for smart bandages. Organic semiconductors are an important materials option for flexible electronics, but to date there exist limited lithographic tools for patterning such materials. To solve this problem, Orthogonal, Inc. developed a new type of photoresist based on immiscible fluorinated materials that could be developed in environmentally benign fluorinated solvents. This presentation will describe the invention of orthogonal photoresists and the first stage challenges of taking these concepts to a commercial product.

Patterning methods for flexible electronics: A startup company in a startup industry

251st National Meeting (2016)

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