Organic electronic materials and devices laboratory

达尔豪斯大学的有机电子材料和器件小组是在两年半前由最初的发现和研究工具和基础设施拨款建立的。在此期间，我们建立了一个世界级的实验室，拥有薄膜沉积，器件制造，电学和光学表征以及有机电子材料表面和界面的光电子能谱研究设施。本次集团共聘用研究生、本科生暑期生、本科生论文生9人。自第一台设备投入使用以来，一年半的研究成果显著，发表、接受或提交了六篇论文。我们还在加速！在这份探索基金的续期申请中，我们要求大幅增加我们的资金水平，以支持这个不断增长和富有成效的研究项目。申请的资金将使该小组的研究生人数从两名增加到四名。除了我们正在进行的有机薄膜晶体管、有机太阳能电池和有机发光器件的研究外，这一水平的资金将支持包括分子电子学、自组装多层电子结构、单分子晶体管、石墨烯纳米带传输和石墨烯纳米带晶体管在内的新领域。

The Organic Electronic Materials and Devices group at Dalhousie University was established by the awarding of initial Discovery and Research Tools and Infrastructure Grants two-and-a-half years ago.  In that time, we have established a world-class laboratory with facilities for thin-film deposition, device fabrication, electrical and optical characterization, and photoelectron spectroscopic studies of the surfaces and interfaces of organic electronic materials.  The group has employed a total of nine graduate, undergraduate summer, and undergraduate thesis students in this time.   Research output in the year-and-a-half since our first equipment became operable has been significant, with six manuscripts published, accepted or submitted. And we are still ramping up!In this application for renewal of the Discovery Grant we are requesting a significant increase in our level of funding, to support this growing and productive research program.  The requested funds would enable the group to grow from two to four graduate students.  In addition to our ongoing studies of organic thin-film transistors, organic solar cells and organic light-emitting devices, this level of funding would enable new areas including molecular electronics, self-assembled multilayer electronic structures, single-molecule transistors, transport in graphene nanoribbons and graphene nanoribbon transistors.