(72c) Organic Electronics and Optoelectronics: Enabling New Energy and Information Technologies

Organic and polymer semiconductors have emerged as the foundation for a range of new electronic and optoelectronic technologies, including organic light-emitting diodes for displays and solid-state lighting, thin film transistors for printed and flexible electronics, organic photovoltaics for scalable and sustainable solar power generation, organic electrochemical transistors for biosensing and neuron-like computing, organic thermoelectrics for harvesting waste heat. Our work is focused on addressing major challenges in the field through the molecular engineering of materials and devices, encompassing synthesis, processing, solid-state structure, properties, structure-property relationships, and device applications of both p-type and n-type semiconducting polymers in many of these areas. In this talk I will discuss several examples of advances in materials and devices in some of these applications.