Symposium J: Organic and Hybrid Organic Electronics. To be Held April 9-13, 2012, in San Francisco,CA

这项建议的目标是增加学生参加研讨会J？有机和混合有机电子？将在2012年斯普林斯夫人会议上举行。资金将用于通过资助旅费和注册费的方式，使正在接受培训的年轻美国科学家能够参加国际会议。拟议的专题讨论会的学术价值在于对化学结构和相关的分子性质(如电子和光谱性质、溶解性、可混性或化学反应性)和使用所调查化合物的装置的特征之间的关系有了详细的了解。例如，在开发可扩展的器件制造方法或在薄膜晶体管中使用大量独有的半导体碳纳米管(SWCNT)时，选择特定的富勒烯衍生物和聚合物对以及所得到的太阳能电池和光电探测器的特性。预计拟议的专题讨论会将产生变革性的设计方法，以便对最适合用于特定设备的新材料进行系统工程，提高计算技术的预测能力，并改进材料和设备计量。更广泛的影响包括显著加快有机和混合动力电子产品的商业发展。具有不同背景的科学家之间的交流将得到促进，这对新开发的设备的工业成功至关重要。将能够制造具有尚未满足的特性的电子设备，例如在柔性衬底上。将特别鼓励妇女和代表人数不足的少数群体的代表参加。

The objective of this proposal is to increase student participation at Symposium J ?Organic and Hybrid Organic Electronics? to be held at the 2012 MRS Spring Meeting. Funds will be used to enable young American scientists in training to attend an international conference by means of financial assistance to travel and registrations fees. The intellectual merit of the proposed Symposium consists in the development of a detailed understanding of correlations between chemical structure and associated molecular properties (such as electronic and spectroscopic properties, solubility, miscibility or chemical reactivity) and characteristics of devices in which the investigated compounds are used. Examples include the selection of pairs of specific fullerene derivatives and polymers and the characteristics of resulting solar cells and photodetectors while developing scalable device fabrication methodology or the use of bulk quantities of exclusively semi-conducting carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) in thin-film transistors. The proposed symposium is expected to lead to transformative design approaches allowing for the systematic engineering of new materials best suitable to be used in specific devices, improved predictive capabilities of computational techniques and better materials as well as device metrology. The broader impact includes the significantly accelerated commercial development of organic and hybrid electronics. Communication between scientists with different backgrounds, critical for the industrial success of newly developed devices will be facilitated. Manufacturing of electronic devices with yet unmet characteristics, for instance on flexible substrates, will be enabled. Participation of women and representatives from underrepresented minorities will be particularly encouraged.