Symposium EP1-Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices

Soft light-emitting materials are a highly tunable class of materials offering routes to the design and development of compounds that are highly specific to a given functionality, organic molecules and polymers being a particularly successful example. Their potential has been impressively demonstrated through the development of highly efficient light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) as well as solar cells. Embedded in smartphones, OLEDs have now become a companion to many of us whilst the OLED display technology gains further momentum in the general display market.

Despite this success, the full potential of soft light-emitting materials is far from being exhaustively explored. The near infinite variability in molecular structure and geometric design is expected to provide functionalities beyond what can be foreseen today and will drive research for the decades to come.

In this interdisciplinary symposium, we will bring together the world-leading experts on organic and other soft emitters. We intend this symposium to cover the latest insights on the fundamental characteristics of these materials, in particular related to their photonic and excitonic properties, as well as emerging device concepts and applications. As such, the symposium is deemed to reflect the almost infinite functional range of organic molecules and how this is an endless source of inspiration to scientists and engineers alike.

• Exciton dynamics andmanagement
• Lasing
• Strong exciton-photoncoupling
• Plasmonics: organicemitters and metallic structures
• (Bio)Sensing applications
• Luminescent solarconcentrators
• Thermally activated delayed fluorescence
• Recent progress influorescence and phosphorescence-based emitter materials
• Energy up- and down-conversion incl. multi-exciton-generation
• Structure-functionalityrelations: disordered systems and single crystals
• Advanced optics / thin-film optics (waveguides, periodic structures, resonators)
• Polaritons, spin-injectionand other spin-effects in organic/soft materials and systems
• IR-emitting materials
• Self-organization, hierarchical structures, metal-organic frameworks, supramolecular dyes
• Bioinspired and bioderivedorganic light sources; photosynthetic complexes
• Devices: Light-emitting diodes, light-emitting transistors, photodetectors

• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _0 (Duke University, USA)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _1 (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _2 (Universität Augsburg, Germany)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _3 (University of Michigan, USA)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _4 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _5 (Polytechnique Montreal, Canada)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _6 (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _7 (RWTH Aachen / DWI - Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials, Germany)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _8 (University of Toronto, Canada)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _9 (Universität Regensburg, Germany)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _10 (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _11 (Durham University, United Kingdom)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _12 (University of Michigan, USA)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _13 (North Carolina State University, USA)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _14 (University of Southern California, USA)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _15 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _16 (University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _17 (Universität Würzburg, Germany)
• EP1_Organic Excitonic Systems and Devices _18 (Universität Heidelberg, Germany)