Public Research Seminar by Advanced Materials Thrust, Function Hub - Molecular Designs of High-Performance Organic Semiconductors Towards Printable Electronics
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Semiconductors lie at the heart of modern electronics, and solution-processable organic semiconductors offer immense potentials for cost-effective, mechanically flexible, and large-area printable electronics including integrated logic circuits, photovoltaics, and biosensors. Understanding the correlation between molecular features and solid-state properties, as well as charge-carrier transport, is essential for further advances in their performances and practical applications. This talk showcases successful designs of the p- and n-type organic semiconductors towards organic-based integrated circuits, and how their unique molecular and solid-state features advanced our understanding of charge-transport physics. Further, novel open-shell π-conjugated systems with near-infrared absorptions and emissions as photovoltaics and energy-storage materials will be presented.
Craig received his BSc in chemistry and biochemistry from University of Toronto in 2016, followed by an MSc in materials chemistry from University of Ottawa in 2018. He then moved to Japan as a JSPS fellow to pursue his Ph.D. studies on the development of novel organic semiconductors, under the supervision of Profs. Toshihiro Okamoto and Jun Takeya at the University of Tokyo, and successfully obtained his Ph.D. in 2021. In 2022, Craig joined the Department of Chemistry and the Cavendish Laboratory at University of Cambridge as a Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellow. His current research with Profs. Hugo Bronstein and Henning Sirringhaus explores the intricate interplay between charge transport and luminescence in organic optoelectronic materials.