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

这项建议的目的是增加学生参与研讨会J？有机和混合有机电子？在2012年春季会议上举行。这些资金将用于资助正在接受培训的美国青年科学家参加国际会议的旅费和注册费。 拟议的研讨会的智力价值在于详细了解化学结构和相关分子性质（如电子和光谱性质，溶解度，溶解性或化学反应性）之间的相关性以及使用所研究化合物的设备的特性。例子包括选择对特定的富勒烯衍生物和聚合物和所得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用半导体碳纳米管（SWCNT）。拟议的研讨会预计将导致变革性的设计方法，允许最适合用于特定设备的新材料的系统工程，提高计算技术和更好的材料以及设备计量的预测能力。 更广泛的影响包括有机和混合电子产品的商业发展大大加快。将促进不同背景的科学家之间的沟通，这对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.