Call for Papers

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Semiconductors are at the heart of various modern technologies that are extensively used in our daily lives. Classical bulk and epitaxial semiconductors are often produced by high-temperature, high-vacuum processes that consume significant energy and lack design freedom. Solution-processable semiconducting materials with nanoscale morphology, such as colloidal quantum dots, organics,and perovskites have received intense interest to address this problem. Their wide tunability in structure, dimensionality, optical and electronic properties allow for tailoring the materials’ functionalities to fulfill different needs. Moreover, they can be deposited strain-free allowing large versatility to combine their functions with integrated platforms for mass production, such as silicon photonics. This booming class of materials also benefits from a vast spectral range covering from mid-IR to UV. As a consequence, massive effort has been put into integrating these materials into the latest generation of photonic devices, including solar cells, light-emitting diodes, photodetectors, single-photon sources, scintillators, lab-on-chips, and optical and quantum communication systems, achieving performances comparable to commercially available counterparts.
In spite of the many advantages, implementation of solution fabricated electronics still faces significant challenges that need to be addressed, such as operational stability of devices, optimization of interfaces between materials, and integration of such devices on chips. Given the intimate link between materials and photonics in all the application domains sketched above, this requires concerted efforts of different communities combining advanced synthetic approaches, interface engineering, device integration techniques, and in-depth studies on materials and devices using spectroscopy, microscopy and machine learning-based computational tools to provide insights on how to control light, heat, and carrier management.
This symposium will hence serve as a unique stimulating platform to promote multi-disciplinary discussions for addressing the current challenges. In order to achieve this, the symposium will bring together world-renowned leaders in the different fields, spanning from experimentalists to theorists and device engineers. To promote multifaceted debates, sessions will be dedicated to solution-based chemistry, nanomaterials characterization, theoretical modeling, device integration, and lab-to-industry process scalability, thus expecting to attract interest not only in academia but also in the industry.

Topics will include:

• Advanced syntheses of low-dimensional semiconducting nanostructures and organic molecules with tailored optical and charge transport properties.
• Materials and device characterization using advanced spectroscopy and microscopy techniques.
• Advances in on-chip integration of solution processed nanomaterials thin films and optimization of device interfaces.
• Design of hybrid photonic devices with innovative structures for optimized light, heat, and carrier management with record performances.
• Understanding and optimization of the devices’ optoelectronic and photonic properties via theoretical modeling and spectroscopic analysis.
• Lab-to-industry scalability and sustainability of materials and devices production.

• A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned.

Invited Speakers (tentative):

• Sergio Brovelli (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
• Hilmi Volkan Demir (Bilkent University, Turkey)
• Sascha Feldmann (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Arjan Houtepen (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
• Bin Hu (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
• Shinae Jun (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea)
• Oana Jurchescu (Wake Forest University, USA)
• Yu Kambe (NanoPattern Technologies, Inc., USA)
• Jongchan Kim (Yonsei University, Republic of Korea)
• Victor I. Klimov (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
• Frédéric Laquai (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
• Emmanuel Lhuillier (Sorbonne Université, France)
• Mengxia Liu (Yale University, USA)
• Maria Antonietta Loi (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
• Biwu Ma (Florida State University, USA)
• Hunter McDaniel (UbiQD, Inc., USA)
• Igor Nakonechnyi (QustomDot BV, Belgium)
• Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
• Isabel Pintor Monroy (imec, Belgium)
• Loredana Protesescu (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
• Ifor Samuel (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
• Henning Sirringhaus (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• Graham Turnbull (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
• Dries van Thourhout (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
• Koen Vandewal (Hasselt University, Belgium)
• Cong-Duan Vo (Quantum Science Ltd, United Kingdom)
• Mikhail Zamkov (Bowling Green State University, USA)
• Ni Zhao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Symposium Organizers