Main Responsibilities

• Head of the division "Synthesis of Nanostructured Organic Systems "
• Project leader "Organic Field Effect Transistor"
• Contact person for students (Diploma and PhD theses)
• Laboratory work
• Planning, installation and extension of experimental equipment

Career

Barbara Stadlober studied experimental physics at the Karl-Franzens University Graz. During her diploma thesis on "Physical Properties of the Superconducting Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O System" she also worked in a project of the Superconductivity Focus of the FFF.

From 1992-1996 she was a member of the scientific staff of the Walther-Meissner Institute for Low Temperature Physics in Garching, Germany and wrote her PhD thesis about "Electronic Raman-Scattering on High-Temperature-Superconductors". She attended numerous international conferences, had several working visits of scientific partners in Europe and the U.S. and has published about 20 papers in refereed journals. Apart from pure research she worked on a project of the FORSUPRA focus of the Bavarian State on Laser Structuring of Superconducting Devices based on High-Tc-Superconductors and supervised diploma works, exercises and courses in Solid State Physics.

After having received her PhD at the Technical University of Munich she was a member of the R&D-Staff of Siemens Halbleiter AG /Infineon Technologies AG in Villach. There she was responsible for the development of processes, structures and methods of reliability studies on electronic devices and for failure analysis.

Since March 2002 she has been working as a research engineer at the Institute of Nanostructured Materials and Photonics, JOANNEUM RESEARCH, and manages the division "Synthesis of Nanostructured Organic Systems". Currently her main interest is in the design, processing and integration of micro- and nanoscaled active and passive electronic devices based on organic materials ('plastic electronics'). In this context special attention is addressed to the evaluation of magnetic, optical and electrical functionalization of organic substances.

Teaching activity:

Tutor of diploma theses, lab exercises and exercises accompanying lectures in solid state physics

• Growth model of pentacene on inorganic and organic dielectrics based on scaling and rate-equation theory
• Growth process control of pentacene thin films and its application in full organic TFTs
• High-mobility pentacene organic field-effect transistors with a high-dielectric-constant fluorinated polymer film gate dielectric
• Hybrid polymers as tunable and directly-patternable gate dielectrics in organic thin-film transistors
• Influence of the grain sizes on the mobility of Organic Thin Film Transistors
• Low-Voltage Organic Thin-Film Transistors with High-k Nanocomposite Gate Dielectrics for Flexible Electronics and Optothermal Sensors
• Novel methods in the C(U)-analysis of organic MIS-structures
• Orders-of-Magnitude Reduction of the Contact Resistance in Short-Channel Hot Embossed Organic Thin Film Transistors by Oxidative Treatment of Au-Electrodes
• Photolithographic source/drain contacts for organic thin film transistors
• Sexithiophene films on clean and oxidized Si(111) surfaces: Growth and electronic structure
• Structural and Electrical Properties of Polymorphic Pentacene Thin Films
• Structural, morphological and electrical properties of pentacene based thin film transistors
• Structuring of oFETs with hot-embossing
• Submicron pentacene-based organic thin film transistors on flexible substrates
• Synthesis of ferroelectric Poly(Vinylidene fluoride) copolymer films and their application in integrated full organic pyroelectric sensors
• Transparent pyroelectric sensors and organic field-effect transistors with fluorinated polymers: Steps towards organic infrared detectors