My project journal is located here. It is planner and designer diary.
The project consists of designing and fabricating an organic light emitting diode (OLED). OLEDs are diodes, which work quite similarly to regular semiconductor diodes, but they have soft matter (organic materials - polymers) as the light emitting substance.
Professor Roger Dorsinville, Electrical Engineering Department, City College, CUNY.
Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) have significant advantages over traditional semiconductor diodes, in that they are easier to manufacture, they potentially have lower operating voltages, thus leading to lower power consumptions. On the down side, they are prone to damage by contamination; a fault that shortens their lifespan of the device. The purpose of this project is to review the latests developments in this area and to build on those developments to design and fabricate an OLED for any given application (as yet undecided), which could be a high intensity room lighting diode, or a digital display, or anything else (time will tell.)
The following tasks have been assigned for completion before Thursday, 5th October, 2006:
Each student conducts individual research on the latest developments (the past 2-3 years) in this area, from journals, research journals, etc. in the libray, online, etc. and creates a powerpoint presentation for the professor.
- Faissal: in charge of the vapor deposition chamber
- Diba: in charge of the spin coating apparatus
- Everybody: learn up using chemicals.
Defining Project Outcomes:
- What constitutes success? - What constitutes failure?
- Mohammad Faisal Halim (Faissal) --> Team Leader - Hassan Oubei - Abdul Diba - Pierre Bouzi
- Halim: has worked in photoluminescent spectroscopy. - Oubei: has worked with atomic force microscopy, and spectrometry. - Diba: has worked with fluorescent spectroscopy. - Bouzi: is familiar with eye diagrams.
- Halim: [email protected] - Oubei: [email protected] - Diba: [email protected] - Bouzi: [email protected]