Symposium EM4-Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors

Organic semiconductors enable a wide range of applications such as solar cells, thin-film transistors, sensors and thermoelectrics. Processing, the resulting nanostructure and device performance are intimately linked. This symposium aims to bring together key researchers in this field to discuss the main challenges towards the widespread application of organic electronics.

Processing of organic semiconductors from solution promises fabrication of large-area opto-electronic devices on flexible substrates at low-cost. The choice of processing parameters including thermodynamic and rheological variables, the use of additives and the surface chemistry of the substrate critically influences the resulting nanostructures. In turn, the precise nanostructure determines the opto-electronic properties of an organic semiconductor thin film. Although tremendous progress has been made recently in developing new processing schemes and many applications are now at hand, with some of them on the verge of commercialization, great challenges still have to be faced, mainly regarding (1) the precise control of nanostructures, (2) the development of in-situ characterization tools, (3) a fundamental understanding of key structure-processing-property relationships, and (4) the long-term stability of materials and devices.

Topics will include:

organic semiconductor blends and (nano)composites
processing additives, dopants, binder polymers
disordered nanostructures vs. single crystals
in-situ and real-time characterization tools
long-term stability and lifetime of materials and devices
large-area processing and production
materials synthesis of small molecular and polymer semiconductors
thin-film processing schemes for e.g. patterning, orientation and anisotropic textures
control of the semiconductor nanostructure at thin-film interfaces
structure-processing-property relationships of organic semiconductors
theoretical studies of structure development in organic semiconductor systems

Invited Speakers:

EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _0 (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _1 (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _2 (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _3 (Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Italy)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _4 (University of Newcastle, Australia)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _5 (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _6 (Northwestern University, USA)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _7 (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _8 (University of Bordeaux, France)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _9 (Wake Forest University, USA)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _10 (Laval University, Canada)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _11 (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _12 (Princeton University, USA)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _13 (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _14 (Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _15 (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _16 (University of California, Davis, USA)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _17 (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _18 (University of Freiburg, Germany)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _19 (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _20 (RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS), Japan)
EM4_Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Semiconductors _21 (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)