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MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EECS Event |
Monday, November 6, 2000
4:00 PM (refreshments 3:45)
Edgerton Hall, Room 34-101
EECS Colloquium
Abstract
With the present rapid pace of scientific discovery, the use of organic electronic and photonic devices in our everyday lives appears inevitable. Indeed, this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in recognition of the immense future potential of electrically active organic materials.
Semiconducting organic thin films are simple to grow and easy to integrate with both conventional technologies and less conventional materials such as flexible, self assembled, or conformable substrates, while they are relatively low cost. Functional use of organics has been demonstrated in the form of light emitters, photodetectors, optical elements, and active electronic logic components, leading to recent commercialization of some of these technologies. Still, many basic electronic and optical properties of organic solids are not well understood, requiring much research to clarify fundamental physical processes. New insights into this field are often interdisciplinary, integrating aspects of chemistry, material science, physics, and engineering. In the past decade, research efforts constantly expand the paradigm of what is possible to achieve with the next generation of novel practical organic optoelectronic devices, and it seems that we have just scratched the surface of what is to come.
In this talk I will describe the operation and the underlying physics of most recently developed active organic optoelectronic devices including photodetectors, solar cells, transistors, lasers, and light-emitting devices.