This symposium will provide an interactive forum for a discussion of multidisciplinary science and technology of integration of chemically dissimilar materials into active or passive electrical and optical devices. The symposium will examine the unique optical and electronic properties that arise in mixed structures containing molecular and polymeric materials, semiconducting nanocrystals, nanorods or nanotubes, metal thin films, or metal nanoparticles. The topics will emphasize the chemical and physical aspects of the hybrid material design, synthesis, processing, fabrication, and device applications.

Session Topics

Papers are solicited in the following areas:

Hybrid Electronic Devices

• Light-emitting-diode materials and devices
• Photovoltaic materials and devices
• Memory storage elements
• Thin-film field-effect transistors

Hybrid Electronic and Optical Materials

• Material design
• Material synthesis

Photonic Applications of Hybrid Materials

• Electro-optic materials
• Photorefractive materials

Plasmonic Effects in Hybrid/Metal Nanoparticle Structures

• Energy propagation in plasmonic structures
• Assembling plasmonic structures

Thin Films of Hybrid Structures

• Self-assembled film structures
• Guided assembly of hybrid structures
• Techniques and devices based on self-assembled systems

Patterning and Fabrication

• Fabrication techniques that utilize hybrid thin films
• Patterning of hybrid thin film

Modeling of Hybrid Materials

• Electronic energy structure
• Optical field analysis

Invited speakers include: Paul Alivisatos (Univ. of California-Berkeley), Marc A. Baldo and Moungi Bawendi (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology), Louisa Bozano (IBM Almaden Research Ctr.), Marc Brongersma (Stanford Univ.), Stephen R. Forrest (Princeton Univ.), Neil Greenham (Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Cherie R. Kagan and Christopher B. Murray (IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr.), Arto Nurmikko (Brown Univ.), Edward H. Sargent (Univ. of Toronto, Canada), Jonathan Steckel (QD Vision), and Yang Yang (Univ. of California-Los Angeles).

Vladimir Bulovic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Rm. 13-3138
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel 617-253-7012
Fax 617-258-6640
bulovic@mit.edu

Seth Coe-Sullivan
QD Vision, Inc.
92 Hayden Ave.
Lexington, MA 02421
Tel 857-891-2207
Fax 866-439-5729
scoe-sullivan@qdvision.com

Peter Peumans
Stanford University
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
CISX-335
330 Serra Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-4075
Tel 781-482-1058
Fax 240-371-6537
ppeumans@stanford.edu