Research in organic electronics has included advances in materials, devices, and processes. Device architectures, increasingly complex circuitry, reliable fabrication methods, and new semiconductors are enabling the incorporation of organic electronic components in products including OLED displays and flexible electronic paper.

Recent efforts at 3M have extended the use of polymeric aperture masks and surface modification methods to produce large area (approximately 6″×6″) arrays of high mobility pentacene TFTs on a variety of substrates. Results of high performance organic TFTs in active matrix display backplanes will be presented.