Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
General Dynamics Endowed Faculty Fellowship in Engineering
Phone: (512) 471-6300
Fax: (512) 471-7060
e-mail: lloo@che.utexas.edu
Dr. Loo's Web site
Dr. Lynn Loo became a University of Texas at Austin professor in 2001. She earned her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton University. Dr. Loo received a $440,000 National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2004 to research materials for the next generation of microelectronics, and a Beckman Young Investigator Award more recently for engineering plastic conductors.
Dr. Loo focuses on the emerging field of “plastic electronics,” using organic and plastic materials to create electronic devices. The cost is potentially very low, and the technology could be used in novel applications such as electronic monitors that could be rolled up, or implantable medical devices that would release a drug when body temperature changed. Dr. Loo’s current projects include an attempt to increase the electrical conductivity of a plastic, polyaniline, which could then be used for microelectronics wiring. Loo is also developing a polymer that will better insulate the wires that interconnect individual components of a computer chip, and would be more efficient in nanoscale electronics than the traditional materials.
Research Interests:
- Development of polymerization techniques to produce block copolymers for electronic applications.
- Lithography and patterning technologies for plastic electronics.
- Structure-function relationships of organic semiconductors, polymer conductors, and self-assembled monolayers.