23rd International Conference on Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Semiconductors

August 23 - 28, 2009

Sigurd Wagner is introducing new electronic materials for application to flexible and conformally shaped large-area displays, electrotextiles, and electronic skin.  For these he is studying thin-film silicon on plastic and steel foil; the interdependence of electrical and mechanical properties in film-on-foil electronics; elastomeric metal interconnects; and functional cells for large area electronics, including displays, multifunctional materials, and sensor skin.  He received his PhD degree from the University of Vienna in 1968.  After holding an Ohio State University Postdoctoral Fellowship he joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill, New Jersey, in 1970 to work first within Bell’s 1 Kb RAM project, and then on device applications for ternary chalcopyrite-type compound semiconductors and other novel electronic materials.  He is co-inventor of the CuInSe₂/CdS and the InP/CdS solar cells, among others.  In 1978 he accepted the position of Branch Chief of the Photovoltaics Research Branch of the newly founded Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL) at Golden, Colorado, to establish the Institute’s photovoltaic laboratory.  In 1980 he joined Princeton University as Professor of Electrical Engineering.  He is a member of Princeton’s Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, of the Program in Plasma Science and Technology and the Program in Sustainable Energy, as well as a Faculty Associate of the Princeton Environmental Institute and of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination.  Prof. Wagner has held visiting appointments at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan, at the University of Constance in Germany as a Senior Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, at the University of Linz in Austria, and at INESC-Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias in Lisbon, Portugal.  He has been active in the IEEE, the Materials Research Society, the Electrochemical Society, is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the IEEE, and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.  He is co-author of approximately 500 technical publications and co-inventor in 20 U.S. patents.