For Registration and Abstract Submission go to: http://www.sid.org/ and click on SID Organic Electronics UK 2010. There are a limited number of places for this meeting, so early registration is strongly encouraged.
Abstract
SID Organic Electronics UK 2010 is to be held at Imperial College London on 20-21 September 2010. This is the 4th two-day meeting organised by the UK and Ireland Chapter of the SID covering all aspects of organic semiconductors and their use in displays.
Since the discovery of polymer electroluminescence at the University of Cambridge in 1989, the United Kingdom has maintained a strong presence in the area of organic electronics. This discovery led to the founding of Cambridge Display Technology, which has since been followed by other organic electronic start-up companies. Current Industrial activity includes CDT, Plastic Logic, Molecular Vision, Merck Chemicals and Solar Press. UK Universities currently involved in this research area include Imperial, Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, QMUL, Sheffield, Manchester, St Andrews, Durham, Hull, Brunel, Strathclyde, Leeds and many others.
The Society for Information Display (SID) is the world’s premier display industry organization http://www.sid.org/. Organic light emitting diode (OLED) based displays have already appeared in products such as MP3 players and mobile phones, and the first full-colour, large-area OLED display has now been commercialized. The use of organic thin film transistors have also been demonstrated in liquid crystal and electronic paper displays. In 2005, Professor Donal Bradley FRS, Head of Department, Physics, Dr Jeremy Burroughes, CDT and Professor Sir Richard Friend FRS, Cavendish Professor of Physics, Cambridge won the prestigious SID Jan Rajchman Prize for discovering light-emitting polymers and developing these materials for displays. In 2006, Professor Steven Forrest, Princeton and Professor Mark Thompson, UCLA, also won the same award for their work on phosphorescent OLEDs.
Imperial currently has more than one hundred people involved in organic electronics research, principally in the Departments of Physics, Chemistry and Materials.
The Imperial College Centre for Plastic Electronics (CPE) has been established to coordinate, facilitate and promote the development of interdisciplinary plastic electronics research at Imperial College London. The Centre seeks to stimulate high impact research that can help to address key societal challenges in environment, energy, health and security and to accelerate its translation into commercial application. The start-up company Molecular Vision Ltd developing microfluidic diagnostic platforms integrated with organic semiconductor light sources and detectors is also based on campus.
Solar Press is a newly formed company that was set- up at Imperial College London, and has the aim of commercialising Organic Photovoltaics (OPV), with its technology development laboratory and corporate headquarters based in London, UK.
We are delighted to be able to host this event and look forward to welcoming you to the meeting.
The meeting will start with a Plenary address from Professor Christoph Brabec (University of Erlangen). Christoph is chair of the Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology at the University of Engerlan, with the research focus on electronic materials and energy technology.
Invited speakers are: John Anthony, University of Kentucky, Adrian Geisow, HP Labs, Gerwin Gelink, Holst Centre / TNO, Neil Greenham, University of Cambridge, Saif Haque, Imperial College London, Martin Jackson, Plastic Logic, Jorge Morgado IST Lisbon, Michele Muccini, CNR Bologna, Euan Smith, CDT and Graham Turnbull, University of St Andrews.
There will be a £250 prize for the Best Student Poster sponsored by Merck Chemicals Ltd, Southampton.
Overnight accommodation is available in a wide selection of nearby hotels and Halls of Residence on campus. There are a limited number of places, so early registration is strongly encouraged. Abstract submission date is 23 August 2010.
For updated details, see the Meeting website:
http://www.sid.org/chapters/uki/forthcoming_meetings.html
Illustration: A flexible polymer LED with gravure contact printed PEDOT:PSS and light emitting polymer layers. This was made at Imperial College London by Mr Dae-Young Chung. It was printed at a speed of 40 metres / minute. The performance was identical to a spin-coated reference device.