Symposium JJ: Fundamental Processes in Organic Electronics

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Fundamental Processes in Organic Electronics

Organic electronics are being developed as potential materials in low-cost and large-area applications as they promise to enable low-cost manufacturing through low-temperature and solution processing. Potential applications include displays, radio-frequency identification chips, biosensors, and solar cells. Initial progress in the field has mostly been realized through synthetic efforts in the form of the creation of new molecular species to control the resulting solid-state microstructures through self-assembly and to optimize the electronic and optical properties. Physicochemical aspects, notably the control of molecular arrangement over all length scales of order and control of the solid-state structure, have recently led to further progress.

The purpose of this symposium is to address fundamental processes, including materials design, self-assembly, degradation, and materials characterization, to aid in establishing structure/processing/property relationships. In-depth knowledge of how certain characteristics can be tuned chemically and/or structurally (including charge transport, ion conduction, and charge generation) is necessary to overcome the present performance limitations for the efficiency of polymer solar cells, biocompatibility for bioelectronics, or environmental and electronic stability of organic transistors. This detailed under-standing is needed to improve current technologies and enable new applications for organic electronics.

Session topics will include

  • Materials design, synthesis, and characterization
  • Organic semiconductors (polymers and small molecules)
  • Organic/inorganic hybrid materials
  • Solution-processable materials for thin-film devices
  • Self-assembly processes
  • Structure-property relationships
  • Photophysics of conjugated matter
  • Biocompatibility of organic electronic materials
  • Ionic conductivity
  • Materials characterization (microstructure and nanoscale)
  • Degradation phenomena and mechanisms of organic electronic materials

Joint sessions with Symposia B: Organic and Hybrid Photovoltaic Materials and Devices, and KK: Charge and Spin Transport in Organic Semiconductor Materials, are being considered.

Invited Speakers Include:

Aram Amassian (KAUST, Saudia Arabia), Zhenan Bao (Stanford Univ.), Jean-Luc Brédas (Georgia Inst. of Technology), Martin Brinkmann (Inst. Charles Sadron CNRS, France), Jennifer Clark (Cambridge Univ., United Kingdom), Peter Ho (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore), George Malliaras (École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, France), Iain McCulloch (Imperial College London, United Kingdom), Adam Moule (Univ. of California, Davis), Dieter Neher (Univ. of Pottsdam, Germany), Brendan O’Connor (North Caroline State Univ.), Hideo Ohkita (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Moritz Riede (IAPP/TU Dresden, Germany), Garry Rumbles (National Renewable Energy Lab), Thomas Russell (Univ. of Massachusetts), Alberto Salleo (Stanford Univ.), Paolo Samori (Univ. of Strasbourg, France), Scott Watkins (CSIRO, Australia), Benjamin Watts (Paul Scherrer Inst., Switzerland).

Symposium Organizers

R. Joseph Kline
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Polymers Division
Stop 8541, 100 Bureau Dr., Gaithersburg, MD 20899
Tel 301-975-4356, Fax 301-975-3928, joe.kline@nist.gov

Harald Ade
North Carolina State University
Dept. of Physics
Box 8202, Raleigh, NC 27695
Tel 919-515-1331, Fax 919-515-3099, harald_ade@ncsu.edu

Christopher McNeill
Monash University
Dept. of Materials Engineering
Wellington Rd., Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia
Tel 61-3-9902-4896, Fax 61-3-9905-4940, christopher.mcneill@monash.edu

Natalie Stingelin
Imperial College London
Dept. of Materials
Exhibition Rd., London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
Tel 44-207-594-6777, Fax 44-207-594-6736, natalie.stingelin@imperial.ac.uk 

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