Topic: Electronic and Opto-Electronic Polymers

Materials, processing and devices based on conjugated organic, organometallic and polymeric materials.  Materials and processing methods that enable these materials for electronic and optical device applications are included.

Related topics include but are not limited to:

• Organic/Polymer transistors
• Organic/Polymer photovoltaic cells
• Organic/Polymer light emitting devices
• Nanoelectronic devices
• Sensors
• Self assembly
• Materials synthesis
• Materials patterning
• Surfaces and interfaces
• Device physics  

Session: Electronic and Opto-Electronic Polymers (i) - Tuesday 3 July (am)

Keynote:  Putting organic polymers into molecular electronics
Klaus Müllen
Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany

Preparation and properties of 2,7-linked-3,6-protected carbazole main chain polymers and copolymers
Ahmed Iraqi*, Timothy G Simmance, Harismah Kun, Akbar Kulasi, Hunan Yi, Mathew Stevenson and David G Lidzey
University of Sheffiled, UK

Electronic and optoelectronic polymers
Martin Heeney*, Clare Bailey, Warren Duffy, David Sparrowe, Steve Tierney, Weimin Zhang, Iain McCulloch, James Durrant and Jenny Nelson
Merck Chemicals, UK

Exciton coupling in highly ordered oligo- and polythiophenes
Johannes Gierschner*, Hans-Joachim Egelhaaf, David Beljonnne and Frank Spano 
University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium

Multi-layer gravure printing of organic TFTs
M Voigt,  F Meng,  J Huang, K Y Yang,  A J Campbell, J H G Steinke* and D D C Bradley
Imperial College London, UK

Systematic investigation into the factors affecting the emission of electrophosphorescent materials
Hugo Bronstein* and C K Williams
Imperial College London, UK

Session: Electronic and opto-electronic polymers session (ii) - Tuesday 3 July (pm)

Keynote:  The use of heavy metal complexes in organic LEDs and solar cells Mark Thompson
University of Southern California, USA

Spectroelectrochemical studies on novel pi-electron materials based on ter-thiophenes fused with TTFs or Fluorenes
Jan E Lohr*, Peter J Skabara and Joseph J W McDouall
University of Strathclyde, UK

Functionalization of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanohorns for electronic applications
S Campidelli*, D M Guldi and M Prato
Università di Trieste, Italy

Tetrathiafulvalene derivatives as building blocks of electronic frameworks
Concepció Rovira*, Marta Mas-Torrent, Peter Hadley, Stefan T. Bromley, Núria Crivillers and Jaume Veciana
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC), Spain

Waveguiding, microcavity effects and optically pumped lasing in single polymer nanowires
Gareth Redmond*
Nanotechnology Group, UK

Synthesis of novel silole copolymers as electroactive materials
Sven Horst*, and Charlotte K Williams
Imperial College London, UK

Synthesis of new iridium complexes bearing sulfonyl and fluorine substituents and effect of functionalization on their photophysical properties
F Babudri, L De Cola, G M Farinola, O Hassan Omar, A E Konradsson, F Naso, E Orselli, A Pedone and Roberta Ragni*
Università degli Studidi Bari, Italy

Electron transfer in nanostructured molecular solar cells
Saif A Haque*, Simon King, Henry Leventis, James R Durrant and Nurlan Tokmoldin
Imperial College London, UK