Homepage

Welcome to PEP2D home page

PEP2D project aims at the realization of fully printed electronic circuits on flexible substrates as paper, leveraging the exceptional electronic properties of inks based on novel two- dimensional materials (2DMs), and through the wide-spread and low-cost inkjet printing technology. The development of fully printed electronic systems on flexible substrates as paper could have an unpreceded economical and societal impact on the European Union. Unleashing the potential of this technology could open new and wide applications, ranging from bio (e.g., smart patches for biometric readings), to food/medicine quality control (e.g, smart tags for checking the breaking of cold chain), or to anti-counterfeiting of valuable goods, just to cite few. Actually, technology is endeavouring to implement the main building blocks for electronic applications in the fast-growing market of flexible electronics expected to expand to 42 B€ by 2021, but available materials are missing the long-term stability and reliability, and device performance can be further improved. From this perspective, it is compulsory to develop new materials, and device architectures able to allow the fully printing of a working electronic system.

PEP2D aims at designing a library of inkjet-printed electronic devices (transistors, and all linear and nonlinear components) and circuits (digital logic, memory circuits, amplifiers, transmitters, receivers) enabled by 2DMs based inks, to be eventually obtained through the use of a single tool as the inkjet process, without the need of any additional fabrications steps (i.e., use of resists, etching etc.) and in air (not in glovebox). Such a goal will be achieved by means of the synergic and complementary activities pursued within the project and based on advanced modelling and design of inkjet-printed devices and circuits, which will lead the activity on the realization and measurements of printed electronic systems.

The team

  

The PEP2D project leverage the synergic collaboration between the University of Pisa (Prof. Gianluca Fiori) and the University of Manchester (Prof. Cinzia Casiraghi)

 

Publications

2023

Silvia Conti, Gabriele Calabrese, Khaled Parvez, Lorenzo Pimpolari, Francesco Pieri, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Cinzia Casiraghi, Gianluca Fiori, “Printed transistors made of 2D material-based inks”, Nature Review Materials  (2023) 1-17. [link][pdf]

 

Prabhat Kumar Dubey, Sebastiano Strangio, Enrique G. Marin, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Gianluca Fiori, “A 2-D-Material FET Verilog-A Model for Analog Neuromorphic Circuit Design”, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 70 (2023) 4945. [link][pdf]

 

Francesco Pieri, Gianluca Fiori, “Paper-based WS2 photodetectors fabricated by all-dry techniques” Opto-Electronic Advances 6 (2023) 230077 [link][pdf]

 

Damiano Marian, Enrique G. Marin,  Marta Perucchini, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Gianluca Fiori, “Multi-scale simulations of two dimensional material based devices: the NanoTCAD ViDES suite”, Journal of Computational Electronics 22 (2023).  [link][pdf]

 

Xuefei Li, Xinhang Shi, Damiano Marian, David Soriano, Teresa Cusati, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Gianluca Fiori, Qi Guo, Wenjie Zhao, Yanqing Wu, “Rhombohedral-stacked bilayer transition metal dichalcogenides for high-performance atomically thin CMOS devices”, Science Advances 9 (2023) 5706. [link][pdf]

 

Prabhat Kumar Dubey, Damiano Marian, and Gianluca Fiori, “Multiscale Simulations of 2-D Material Ink-Based Printed Network Devices”, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 70 (2023) 689. [link][pdf]

 

Omar Kassem, Lorenzo Pimpolari, Chaochao Dun, Dmitry K. Polyushkin, Marco Zarattini, Elisabetta Dimaggio, Liming Chen, Giovanni Basso, Federico Parenti, Jeffrey J. Urban, Thomas Mueller, Gianluca Fiori, and Cinzia Casiraghi, “Water-based 2-dimensional anatase TiO2 inks for printed diodes and transistors”, Nanoscale 15 (2023) 5689. [link][pdf]

 

2022

Mizanur Rahman, Khaled Parvez, Giorgia Fugallo, Chaochao Dun, Oliver Read, Adriana Alieva, Jeffrey J. Urban, Michele Lazzeri, Cinzia Callegari and Simone Pisana, “Anitsotropic Thermal Conductivity of Inkjet-Printed 2D Crystal Films: Role of the Microstructure and Interfaces”, Nanomaterials 12 (2022) 3861. [link][pdf]

 

Zhengyu Yan, María J G Guimarey, Khaled Parvez, Chaochao Dun, Oliver Read, Thomas Forrest, Jeffrey J Urban, Amor Abdelkader, Cinzia Casiraghi and Wajira Mirihanage, “Nanoscale insights into the structure of solution-processed graphene by x-ray scattering”, 2D Materials 10 (2022) 015006. [link][pdf]

 

Marta Perucchini, Damiano Marian, Enrique G. Marin, Teresa Cusati, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Gianluca Fiori, “Electronic Transport in 2D-Based Printed FETs from a Multiscale Perspective”, Advanced Electronics Materials 8 (2022) 2100972. [link][pdf]

 

Lorenzo Pimpolari,Irene Brunetti, Riccardo Sargeni, Francesco Pieri, Khaled Parvez,  Massimo Macucci, Cianzia Casiraghi and Gianluca Fiori, “Fully Printed and Flexible Schottky Diodes based on Carbon Nanomaterials Operating up to 5 MHz”, IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics 1 (2022) 153. [link][pdf]

 

2021

Irene Brunetti, Lorenzo Pimpolari, Silvia Conti, Robyn Worsley, Subimal Majee, Dmitry K. Polyushkin, Matthias Paur, Elisabetta Dimaggio, Giovanni Pennelli, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Massimo Macucci, Francesco Pieri, Thomas Mueller,Cinzia Casiraghi and Gianluca Fiori, “Inkjet-printed low-dimensional materials-based complementary electronic circuits on paper”, npj – 2D Materials and Applications 85 (2021) 1. [link][pdf]

 

Lorenzo Pimpolari; Gabriele Calabrese; Silvia Conti; Robyn Worsley; Subimal Majee; Dmitry K. Polyushkin; Matthias Paur; Cinzia Casiraghi; Thomas Mueller; Giuseppe Iannaccone; Massimo Macucci; Gianluca Fiori, “1/f Noise Characterization of Bilayer MoS2 Field-Effect Transistors on Paper with Inkjet-Printed Contacts and hBN Dielectrics”, Advanced Electronic Materials 7 (2021) 2100283. [link][pdf]

 

Emmanuele Cannavò; Damiano Marian; Enrique G. Marin; Giuseppe Iannaccone; Gianluca Fiori, “Transport properties in partially overlapping van der Waals junctions through a multiscale investigation”, Physical Review B 104 (2021) 085433. [link][pdf]

 

Sheikh Aamir Ahsan; Shivendra Kumar Singh; Mehak Ashraf Mir; Marta Perucchini; Dmitry K. Polyushkin; Thomas Mueller; Gianluca Fiori; Enrique G. Marin, “A SPICE Compact Model for Ambipolar 2-D-Material FETs Aiming at Circuit Design” IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 3096 (2021) 3096. [link][pdf]

 

Roberto Sorrentino, Robyn Worsely, Paola Lagonegro, Christian Martella, Adriana Alieva, Guido Scavia, Francesco Galeotti, Mariacecilia Pasini, Benoit Dubertret, Sergio Brovelli, Alessandro Molle, Cinzia Casiraghi and Umberto Giovanella, “Hybrid MoS2/PEDOT:PSS transporting layers for interface engineering of nanoplatelet-based light-emitting diodes”, Dalton Transactions.  50 (2021) 9208. [link][pdf]

 

2020

Yury Yu. Illarionov, Theresia Knobloch, Markus Jech, Mario Lanza, Deji Akinwande, Mikhail I. Vexler, Thomas Mueller, Max C. Lemme, Gianluca Fiori, Frank Schwierz, Tibor Grasser, “Insulators for 2D nanoelectronics: the gap to bridge”, Nature Communications 11 (2020) 3385. [link][pdf]

 

Andrea Camposeo, Francesca D’Elia, Alberto Portone, Francesca Matino, Matteo Archimi, Silvia Conti, Gianluca Fiori, Dario Pisignano, Luana Persano, “Naturally Degradable Photonic Devices with Transient Function by Heterostructured Waxy‐Sublimating and Water‐Soluble Materials”, Advanced Science 7 (2020) 2001594. [link][pdf]

 

Gabriele Calabrese, Lorenzo Pimpolari, Silvia Conti, Fabrice Mavier, Subimal Majee, Robyn Worsley, Zihao Wang, Francesco Pieri, Giovanni Basso, Giovanni Pennelli, Khaled Parvez, David Brooks, Massimo Macucci, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Kostya S. Novoselov, Cinzia Casiraghi, Gianluca Fiori, “Inkjet-printed graphene Hall mobility measurements and low-frequency noise characterization”, Nanoscale 12  (2020) 6708. [link][pdf]

 

Silvia Conti, Lorenzo Pimpolari, Gabriele Calabrese, Robyn Worsley, Subimal Majee, Dmitry K. Polyushkin, Matthias Paur, Simona Pace, Dong Hoon Keum, Filippo Fabbri, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Massimo Macucci, Camilla Coletti, Thomas Mueller, Cinzia Casiraghi, Gianluca Fiori, “Low-voltage 2D materials-based printed field-effect transistors for integrated digital and analog electronics on paper”, Nature Communications 11 (2020) 3566.  [link][pdf]

 

2019

Jincheng Tong, Amadou Doumbia, Adriana Alieva, Michael L. Turner, Cinzia Casiraghi, “Gas Blow Coating: A Deposition Technique To Control the Crystal Morphology in Thin Films of Organic Semiconductors”, ACS Omega 4 (2019) 11657. [link][pdf]

 

Robyn Worsley, Lorenzo Pimpolari, Daryl McManus, Ning Ge, Robert Ionescu, Jarrid A. Wittkopf, Adriana Alieva, Giovanni Basso, Massimo Macucci, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Kostya S. Novoselov, Helen Holder, Gianluca Fiori, Cinzia Casiraghi, “All-2D Material Inkjet-Printed Capacitors: Toward Fully Printed Integrated Circuits”, ACS Nano 13 (2019) 54. [link][pdf]

 

2018

Enrique G. Marin, Marta Perucchini, Damiano Marian, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Gianluca Fiori, “Modeling of Electron Devices Based on 2-D Materials”, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 65 (2018) 4167.[link][pdf]