CAREER: Organic Photonic Materials and Plastic Optoelectronic Technologies

该项目是有机光子材料和塑料光电子技术领域的综合研究和教学努力。拟开展的研究将集中在光折变聚合物中的电荷转移和共轭分子和聚合物中的发光。这项研究将由三项高度相关的主要任务组成。一个领域是电子工程光折变聚合物的研究，其中敏化剂、运输分子和生色团的前线轨道的相对能量被控制并系统地变化，目的是开发具有亚毫秒响应时间的新材料。第二个领域包括基于双光子吸收敏化剂的光折变聚合物的发展。第三个领域包括基于新一代具有可控制前沿轨道能量和良好光化学稳定性的可光寻址分子和聚合物的有机电致发光器件的制造、测试和建模，重点是在塑料衬底上开发全彩色显示器。该计划的更广泛的目标是利用所提出的多学科教学方法作为在其他大学创建同等课程的工具，并为学生提供跨学科和基于知识的光电子和信息技术行业的职业环境(特别是低成本、轻质、灵活的光电子器件)。该计划将维持和加强来自几个系的科学家之间的现有合作伙伴关系，包括光学、化学、物理、以及亚利桑那大学的材料科学与工程。

The program is an integrated research and teaching effort in the field of Organic Photonic Materials and Plastic Optoelectronic Technologies. The proposed research will focus on the study of charge-transfer in photorefractive polymers and light-emission in conjugated molecules and polymers. The research will consist of three major tasks that are highly connected. One area is the study of electronically engineered photorefractive polymers in which the relative energy of the frontier orbitals of the sensitizer, transport molecule, and the chromophore are controlled and systematically varied with the goal of developing new materials with sub-ms response times. The second area includes the development of photorefractive polymers based on two-photon absorption sensitizers. The third area includes fabrication, testing, and modeling of organic electroluminescent devices based on a new generation of photo-addressable molecules and polymers with controlled frontier orbital energies and good photochemical stability with emphasis of developing full color displays on plastic substrates.A broader goal of the program is to use the proposed multidisciplinary teaching approach as a vehicle to create equivalent curriculums in other universities and educate students for cross-disciplinary and knowledge-based career environment for the optoelectronics and information technology industry (specifically, low cost, light weight, flexible optoelectronic devices).This program will sustain and strengthen an existing partnership between scientists from several departments including Optical Sciences, the Departments of, Chemistry, Physics, and Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Arizona.