Symposium EP5-Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms

Metal oxides interfaced with organic, inorganic, metal, or dissimilar metal oxide thin films and semiconductors are increasingly considered one of the most viable solutions for the large-scale development and deployment of entirely solution-processed hybrid electronic platforms. The grand challenge is that surface energetics and functionalities are often distinct from bulk properties and are expected to have direct impact on thin film hybrid electronic systems, where the interfaces are the devices. A fundamental understanding of metal oxide surfaces and complex processes occurring at such hetero-interfaces is central to implementation of novel material combinations and new devices architectures to advance the field of hybrid electronics – specifically to elucidate interfacial chemistry, local structure and composition, structural reorganization and interfacial charge transport for device relevant materials in-operando.

The emphasis of this symposium is not solely on device performance, which is adequately covered in numerous other symposia, but on innovative characterization strategies and new interfacial phenomena at buried interfaces. Research focusing on scientific and technical challenges currently encountered with novel materials and processing techniques being implemented in a range of technologies are encouraged, including but not limited to: batteries; supercapacitors; solar fuels; photovoltaics and solid-state lighting. This symposium will aim to emphasize correlating measured rates of charge transfer and/or transport with interfacial structure and electronic properties that are divergent from bulk. The metal oxide interfacial issues concerning opto-electronic properties of thin film semiconductors are appropriate, with planned sub-sections on metal oxide/organic, metal oxide/inorganic (including quantum structures and perovskites), metal oxide/metal oxide, and metal oxide/metal, again with the emphasis on how atomic structure translates into macroscale behaviors. Work detailing the characterization and control of surface defects at metal oxide/liquid heterojunctions for solar fuels and battery applications is also within the scope of the symposium. Particular consideration will be given to contributions in which a combination of optical, spectroscopic and electronic methods provide evidence for need/importance of more fundamental understanding regarding the role of surfaces and interfaces in determining functionality across length scales, in the broader context of materials for energy technologies.

• Composition and electronic structure at buried interfaces.
• Novel techniques for in-situ growth and in-operando device interface characterization.
• Correlation of atomic interfacial structure with macroscopic properties.
• Heterogeneity of nanostructured interfaces – 2D and 3D architectures.
• Lifetime evolution of interfacial and near interfacial structure and composition.
• Surface structure and electronic properties of solution vs. vacuum processed materials.
• Large scale manufacturing – rapid optical and electronic characterization.

• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _0 (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _1 (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _2 (Stanford University, USA)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _3 (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _4 (University of Oregon, USA)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _5 (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _6 (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _7 (University of Tennessee, USA)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _8 (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _9 (Nippon Hokubai Co, Ltd, Japan)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _10 (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _11 (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _12 (University of Wyoming, USA)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _13 (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _14 (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _15 (Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas, Greece)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _16 (Northwestern University, USA)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _17 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• EP5_Metal Oxide Hetero-Interfaces in Hybrid Electronic Platforms _18 (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)