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

该提案的目的是提高学生对研讨会 J“有机和混合有机电子学”的参与度。将于 2012 年 MRS 春季会议上举行。资金将用于通过旅行和注册费的经济援助，使正在接受培训的年轻美国科学家能够参加国际会议。 拟议研讨会的智力价值在于详细了解化学结构和相关分子特性（例如电子和光谱特性、溶解度、混溶性或化学反应性）之间的相关性以及使用所研究化合物的设备的特性。例子包括选择特定的富勒烯衍生物和聚合物对以及由此产生的太阳能电池和光电探测器的特性，同时开发可扩展的设备制造方法或在薄膜晶体管中使用大量的专有半导体碳纳米管（SWCNT）。拟议的研讨会预计将带来变革性的设计方法，允许对最适合在特定设备中使用的新材料进行系统工程，提高计算技术的预测能力以及更好的材料和设备计量学。 更广泛的影响包括显着加速有机和混合电子产品的商业发展。不同背景的科学家之间的交流将得到促进，这对于新开发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，例如在柔性基板上。将特别鼓励妇女和代表性不足的少数群体代表的参与。

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.