Topics at the Frontier of Organic and Hybrid Electronics, Optoelectronics and Bioelectronics

The program of our GRC meeting spans a range of topics at the frontier of organic and hybrid electronics, optoelectronics and bioelectronics. These molecular electronic systems share key physical processes creating opportunities for cross-fertilization between subfields at this GRC meeting. The understanding of exciton and charge physics, the interplay between electronic function and macromolecular conformation and solid-state microstructure, interface electronic structure, and thin-film solution processing, all contribute to the rapid growth and success of organic electronics, bioelectronics and optoelectronics. This GRC meeting will explore areas of traditional research such as carrier transport, the role of order and disorder, the mechanisms and effects of chemical and electro-chemical doping, energetics at organic and hybrid interfaces, and the design, synthesis and processing of molecular and polymer semiconductors will be explored along emerging topics such as organic spin physics, charge and ionic mixed conductivity, interfacing organics with catalysts, organic neuromorphic devices, green processing, stability and durability and recycling. This conference will provide a premier context for researchers at all stages of career, among them leading experts in these various sub-fields, to gather under the same roof for five days of intense, inclusive, and stimulating discussions that will undoubtedly contribute to further understanding and progress in organic and hybrid thin-film optoelectronics and beyond.

The GRC meeting will be immediately preceded, and will greatly benefit from, a two-day Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, run by graduate students for graduate students, post-docs and other scientists from the highly interdisciplinary community of organic electronics. These days of intense discussions senior and junior theoreticians and experimentalists experts in these various subfields will therefore undoubtedly contribute to further understanding and progress in the area of organic and hybrid thin film electronics.